Reviews
La Habana era una Fiesta: Original Recordings From the Golden Age of Cuban Radio
Spain may have lost Cuba as a colony in 1898 but strong ties remained between the two nations and this...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2011
A Musical Journey
Linde Nijland & Bert Ridderbos
Wearing a veil, Dutch folk singer Linde Nijland performs the traditional ‘The Snows they Melt the Soonest’ in an Iranian...
Reviewed by René van Peer in issue: October/2011
2 Times Revolution
The Sicilian-born but Jamaican-based singjay and multi– instrumentalist Alberto ‘Alborosie’ D'Ascola first came to attention with a series of rootsy...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: October/2011
Hollie Cook
Music is in Hollie Cook's blood. Her father is Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook. Having grown up in West London,...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: October/2011
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
In the midst of all the countrified wannabes, rockabilly has-beens and nouveau string bands running around, Old Sledge are the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2011
Afro-Latin: Via Kinshasa
The hard part about putting together a killer compilation of music is not selecting the tracks, it's getting the licensing...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2011
Ne Ka Mali!!
Amkoullel's Mali is a little different to the West African country of koras and calabashes, Toumanis and Djelimadys, percussion ensembles,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Foxlight
It's taken the County Cork-born former Afro Celts singer six years to follow up his staggeringly visceral Invisible Fields, which...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
