Reviews
If Paradise
The GUO must be one of the more ambitious and fluid big-bands in existence. Led by trombonist Tony Haynes, it...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2012
The Devil's Brides
Yale Strom is both a researcher into the history of Jewish klezmer music and an excellent violinist. This CD features...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Seljord anno 1935
When fiddler and writer Per Anders Buen Garnås, son of the famous singer Agnes Buen Garnås, added to his already...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2012
Kelmti Horra
Is this the sound of post-revolutionary Tunisia? Perhaps. Certainly it is a self-assured, outward-looking and proudly individual debut from a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Live On Tour: Union Chapel November 2010
There's not been, to my knowledge, a live album from Norma Waterson. So give a warm hand, please, for this...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2012
Cumbia Cumbia
This album invites the question: do we need to recycle the already recycled? The tip-top material here of ever-popular cumbia...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2012
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute
Beautifully performed by a variety of artists from the Rounder catalogue and generously notated by label co-founder Bill Nowlin, this...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Apr/May/2012
Old Chairs to Mend
David Gibb's second solo album, There Are Birds in My Garden [reviewed in #79] revealed the adventurous musical mind of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
The Woodbine & Ivy Band
This Manchester collective create spirited folk-rock of a distinctly 1969 vintage. The rapid-fire drums, guttural guitar, throbbing bass and backing...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
No Stranger Here
Shubha Mudgal, Ursula Rucker & the Business Class Refugees
Initially I found the very idea of this album a little off-putting. A selection of 16th century Indian poems by...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2012
