Reviews
Hermit’s Grove
Wax Machine is the brainchild of Brazilian-born, Italian and British-raised musician Lau Ro. After emigrating to Europe at eight years...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Vol II
Twenty years ago, inspired by a series of concerts at the Largo club in Los Angeles where a mad-scientist-in-the-laboratory vibe...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Rise Jamaica! Independence Jamaica Special
When Jamaica achieved its independence from Britain on August 6 1962, its music industry was still in the nascent stages...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Homenaje a El Carmen
Los Hermanos Ballumbrosio are a family music group from El Carmen in Chincha, a cotton-producing province around 200km south of...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Wind Rose
For her third album, western Canadian fiddle player, singer and step-dancing specialist Jocelyn Pettit conjures up a dozen traditional, contemporary...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Eli Winter
Known as an extraordinarily adept self-taught guitarist with a distinctive style bearing the imprint of contemporary American flatpickers, particularly his...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Mis Ancestros
Perkutao are an Afro-Peruvian percussion ensemble founded in 2005 and directed by Percy Chinchilla, musician, percussionist, zapateador and teacher. Mis...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Cross the Rolling Water
Fiddler and singer-songwriter Hannah Read met banjo player Michael Starkey at an Appalachian music session in Edinburgh in 2019. They...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
