Reviews
The Happiest Man in the World
Eric Bibb & North Country Far & Danny Thompson
Eric Bibb refutes the stereotype of the bluesman as bad-ass drunkard who would sell his soul so to play music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2016
Future Sound of Ukraine: Borsh Division
As Vlad Trotsky, theatre director and conceptual genius behind DakhaBrakha, once put it: ‘Old Europe is tired and cynical and...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
The Woman at the End of the World
Elza Soares has been one of Brazil's most controversial samba singers ever since her career began in the late 1950s,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016
This House Will Stand
For this Best Of set, Oysterband have compiled a disc of choice cuts from across their late-90s and post-2000s career,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2016
Reste la Lumière
This album starts off, appropriately enough, with a track called ‘Courage’, and the long vocal line supported only by a...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2016
Mar Afora
Over the last three decades, Portuguese jazz singer (and former black-belt aikido athlete) Maria João, and Brazilian singer-songwriter Guinga have...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: July/2016
Good Times Will Come Again
The seventh studio album from the enviably self-sufficient husband-and-wife team of Stu and Debbie Hanna, otherwise known as Megson, strikes...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Néo
The title of this recording, the first album of original compositions by Japanese-American instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe, can loosely be translated...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2016
Live: The Farewell Tour
Bellowhead made some great studio albums but their concerts are extraordinary. There was the horn section, kicking like a chorus...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2016
Vårdroppar
It's enough of a selling point to say that the liner notes for this album were written by the great...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2016
