Reviews
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy
The premise of Industrial Strength Bluegrass is an intriguing one. In the 1950s and 60s, destitute migrants from the backwoods...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
Tambolero
Rather than simply remaster the breakthrough 1993 album, La Candela Viva, from the Afro-Colombian singer Totó la Momposina, the folks...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
L'infinit
Francesc Sans is a much travelled Catalan player of the cornamusa, a type of gaita or bagpipes (cornemuse in French)....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: November/2021
Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen
The Poison Glen lies under the shadow of the iconic Mount Errigal, Ireland's answer to Mount Fuji. It's not far...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: June/2012
You, Golden
Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell
You, Golden was apparently recorded live, in a barn and in a smattering of days, but it couldn't sound further...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: December/2022
Reste la Lumière
This album starts off, appropriately enough, with a track called ‘Courage’, and the long vocal line supported only by a...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2016
Visit Malphino
The continuing globalisation of cumbia has seen it travel from Colombia's Caribbean coast to urban dance halls, stadium rock shows,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2018
Where the Darkness Goes
Not surprisingly, this solo album from one third of long-established Canadian folk-pop trio Po’Girl sounds not entirely dissimilar to Po’Girl,...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
