Reviews
La Onda Vampi
Vampisoul really knows how to mash it up. The Spanish label, celebrating a decade this year, has to be one...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
Empêche-Nous!
France's favourite southerners are back with more balladry about life in the port city of La Ciotat, near Marseille. This...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
Mare Nostrum
Jordi Savall is a leading specialist in early music, the styles of the 12th to 18th century. In those times...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2012
Binari: Well Wishing Music
As those who have seen the group live know, Dulsori mix old and new, but they do so with authority,...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: June/2012
Radio Salone
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone's reggae band, the Refugee All Stars, emerged from the refugee camps born of the brutal civil war that...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2012
Enthralled
Oliver Schroer & Nuala Kennedy
The aptly titled Enthralled, a collaboration between Canadian fiddler and composer Schroer and Irish flautist and singer Kennedy, is a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2012
The Band Courtboullion
There's never been a recording quite like this one. Three highly accomplished Cajun revivalists – each a musical pioneer and...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: June/2012
Wait For Me
The vinyl LP age may have been a long time ago now, but that doesn't alter the fact that 42...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2012
Play Traditional Cajun Music
The Balfa Brothers were born into a very poor Cajun farming family in southern Louisiana and grew up both speaking...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
