Reviews
Bali 1928, Vol II: Tembang Kuna – Songs from an Earlier Time
The second of five planned discs collecting 78s of traditional Balinese music, this album's music may be 87 years old,...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: November/2015
Continuum
For their seventh album, Singapore-based art-rockers The Observatory, most of whom are graduates of various 90s bands, have combined guitars,...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: November/2015
The Land We Hold Dear
The Land We Hold Dear is the first release by The Barker Band since the passing in April 2012 of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2015
Secret Victory
There was an impressive self-titled EP last year from this Canadian power-folk trio but their live-sounding, full-length album debut is...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2015
Inconceivable Mazurkas
This is a real find: a remarkable family trio comprising Jan Malisz and his two children,12-year-old Zuzanna and 16-year-old Kacper,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2015
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia
The ever-growing thirst for Peruvian cumbia (sometimes known as chicha) is showing no signs of being satiated. What started in...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2015
What Pan Did for Me
Visitors to Port of Spain's legendary carnival will recall Panorama, the steel band competition at which bands – some up...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: November/2015
Tunes from the North, Songs from the South
Karrnnel Sawitsky & Daniel Koulack
Anyone with an ear for the deeply complex and exquisitely subtle reciprocation between the banjo and fiddle will be dazzled...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2015
Rosa del Sud
In his wanderings through the poetic and sonic landscapes of the Mediterranean, re-imagining the historical and cultural bedrock of his...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: November/2015
Tradición, Arte y Pasión
Mariachi los Camperos de Nati Cano
Mariachi music is a litmus test of inner joy; people who don’t like it probably don’t like beer, sex or...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2015
