Reviews
Sri Lanka: Sigiriya's Love Songs, Ceylon
It is always welcome to see albums of music that bring more local traditions to a wider audience, and this...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2014
Gipsy Rhumba
Andalucía's connection with Gypsy culture via flamenco is famous. Less well-known is the emergence, during the early 1960s, of a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2014
No 2 Greepe
This is the second album from the Campbells of Greepe – hailed as one of the great singing families in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014
Thamesis
If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2014
Best of Mariza
This really is exactly what it says: highlights from the career of the extraordinary fado singer who released her debut...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2014
Tomorrow People: The Best of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
The Melody Makers, on the surface, look like Jamaica's version of the Jacksons. Featuring four of Bob Marley's numerous children...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2014
Loving a Fool
This debut album, funded through a Kickstarter campaign, is a masterclass in presenting old and new side by side. Tumbling...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2014
Encyclopedia of Arto
A founding member of seminal New York ‘no wave’ band DNA and long a guitar-shredding pivot of New York's downtown...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2014
Calaita Flamenco Son
Two years of intense gigging is very much in evidence on this confident flamenco fusion debut. Calaita Flamenco Son was...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2014
