Reviews
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny
Mick Houghton and Andrew Blatt deserve much credit for conceiving and compiling this set – and for unearthing previously unheard...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Meeting of Hearts
Based on the cover alone, you might assume that Meeting of Hearts was something to do with a Jewish self-help...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Pingue-Pongue
Paulo Bellinati & Cristina Azuma
Though little of it reaches our shores, there's a great deal more to Brazilian music than bossa nova and 1970s-style...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Temperamento: Traditional Songs from Spain
Vigüela is a Toledo-based outfit of singers, guitarists and players of castanets, tambourines, shearing scissors, cowbells, sieves, the lute-like bandurria,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Logos
Flamenco musicians have been testing out all kinds of fusions for decades now. Virtuoso guitarist Gerardo Núñez, who has had...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Japanistan
This recording by Paris-based instrumentalist Kengo Saito appears to occupy a niche of one, being a cross-section of music from...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Na Estrada
Bel Air de Forro are a new France-based outfit, a trio of Brazilian singer Mariana Caetano, fellow Brazilian Marcelo Costa...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Clear Skies
For the follow-up to their largely mellow and laidback 2012 debut, Open the Door for Three, Belfast trio Réalta have...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
