Reviews
Rare Bird Alert
Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers
For all the fanfare about Steve Martin's multi-tasking talents, the fact remains: he's a badass banjo player. Sure, there are...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2011
Water Music
In contrast to the two previous albums by the Thai Elephant Orchestra, which featured human collaborators, this one, the last...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2011
Nigeria 70: Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife and Juju From 1970s Lagos
The third edition of Strut's Nigeria 70 series contains another 13 crate-raiding tracks never previously issued outside of Nigeria –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2011
Tovafelé: Music from Beyond the Carpathian Mountains
Tuz Lángja are a young Hungarian band, drawing on the traditions of the Csángó people, who live in an enclave...
Reviewed by Balázs Weyer in issue: July/2011
Rumbamazigha
Seven musicians gather to create a fusion of Catalan and Amazigh music. Barcelona record label Taller de Musics announces that...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
Outsinging the Nightingale: Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music 1905-1950
As you might imagine, this is a treasure-chest of unknown gems from pioneering companies such as Gramophone, Pathé, Odeon and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2011
The Holy Coming of the Storm
A musical duo that met in Seattle just a year and a half ago, Morrison and West have quickly formed...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2011
Omara & Chucho
Omara Portuondo & Chucho Valdes
A simple and thoroughly effective record, bringing together Cuba's most eminent pianist and one of its redis– covered national-treasure vocalists,...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/2011
Sleep With One Eye Open
One wag once described bluegrass music as ‘bebop for the harmonically challenged.’ If there's any truth to this rather snooty...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2011
Lysøen: Hommage a Ole Bull
Nils Økland & Sigbjørn Apeland
Hardanger fiddle and violin player Nils Økland makes music that sounds as if he were spinning fine lace between the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2011
