Reviews
Calypso Craze 1956-57 and Beyond
Forty-year-old Bear Family Records is a German label renowned for digging deeply into the country, blues and rock’n’roll archives, and...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Animism
When Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq was awarded the prestigious Polaris Prize (Canada's equivalent to the Mercury Prize) this October...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Tamo Doli
Dunja Knebl is one of Croatia ’ s most experienced singers of traditional music; for the past two decades...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
The Earls of Leicester
Arrayed in Stetson hats and string bow ties (aka a ‘Colonel Sanders’ tie), The Earls of Leicester took the Banjo...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Cajueiro
Márcio Faraco has built a career in Europe (principally France) playing the kind of smooth, jazzy bossa nova Europe has...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Cabinet of Curiosities
As amiable and unpretentious as they are hugely talented and entertaining, The Hut People are accordionist Sam Pirt and percussionist...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Dubs & Versions I
Glitterbeat Records have created an original album that is like an echo of a ‘Best Of’: they have given dub...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Atlantic Beat: Mad’in Portugal
There is a variety of ways of ordering a coffee in Portugal: OqueStrada tells us all about it in ‘Café...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
New Found Land
FatDog were born one night in the summer of 2011 on the Swedish Koster Islands, where jazz trio Fattigfolket and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
