Reviews

Old Light: Songs from My Childhood and Other Gone Worlds

Rayna Gellert

Rayna Gellert’s great-grandfather was a Hungarian-born orchestral violinist whose career path led to a gig on a transatlantic cruise ship...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Roll Me, Tumble Me

The Deadly Gentlemen

The Deadly Gentlemen sport a thoroughbred bluegrass line-up of guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and double bass, and are fronted by...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

The Definitive Doc Watson

Doc Watson

Folk-singer-ophobes may find an unlikely ally in American roots singer Tim O’Brien, who astutely summarises Doc Watson’s appeal in the...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Fabiola

Da Lata

Da Lata first appeared on our horizon in the mid-90s when their largely Brazilian-scented grooves found great favour with DJ...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Old Buck

Old Buck

Most of these tunes are as tried-and-true traditional old¬time as the classic instrumental line-up (fiddle, banjo, bass, guitar and mandolin)...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Gone Away Backward

Robbie Fulks

There should be a special award for this kind of high-level deployment of a musical ensemble. Fulks, a skilled acoustic...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador

Hatun Kotama

The town of Otavalo, high up in the Ecuadorian Andes, is renowned for its crafts and its indigenous folk music....

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Sousamaphone

Riot Jazz Brass Band

The rising popularity of American brass bands – Hot 8 Brass Band and Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

High Moon Order

Betse Ellis

Bluegrass music is not going to hell in the hands of young post-rock performers, rest assured. But I have detected...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

This World Oft Can Be

Della Mae

The second full-length album by Boston-based Della Mae demonstrates that the all-female quintet are presently in a sweet spot, one...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013