Reviews
Gabriel Saglio et les Vieilles Pies
Gabriel Saglio et les Vieilles Pies
World music fusions have often resulted in some pointless sonic stews, and Gabriel Saglio, a Toulouse-based artist, has come up...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
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Barbara (1955-1961)
Sixteen years after the death of one of France’s most prestigious singer-songwriters, Monique Cerf (aka Barbara), this is a typically...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983
Admirers of 70s African music are living in high-cotton times, thanks to admirably dogged labels like Soundway and Analog Africa....
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Fado: Coimbra-Lisbonne 1949-1961
Having Alfredo Marceneiro, Amalia Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, Fernando Farinha, Maria Teresa de Noronha and Hermínia Silva on one record...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador
The town of Otavalo, high up in the Ecuadorian Andes, is renowned for its crafts and its indigenous folk music....
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Sousamaphone
The rising popularity of American brass bands – Hot 8 Brass Band and Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Blackbird
The Wellington eight-piece Fat Freddy’s Drop have, over the past decade, built up a remarkable international following with their blend...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
High Moon Order
Bluegrass music is not going to hell in the hands of young post-rock performers, rest assured. But I have detected...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Chapter One
With a 1973 debut record floating somewhere between San Francisco and Lagos, Blo were the pioneers of African rock. Fusing...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
