Reviews
Santa Plástica
Argentinian folk song has many modes reflecting the topographies and cultures whence it springs. The music of the French-based Caronni...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2019
Assouf
It has been two decades since desert blues music first stepped onto the international stage, and although the world still...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: January/February/2022
Si Vita Si
If you're imagining Barbara Furtuna as a comely chanteuse from mainland France – perhaps you've spotted that Jacques Brel's ‘Song...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Apr/May/2014
5ed Round
Ever thought that the Celts and the Arabs, or other Mediterranean people like the ancient Greeks, could be close relatives?...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: May/2016
Lawless, Winged & Unconfined
Clarinettist Merlin Shepherd, a central figure of the British klezmer crowd, presents us here with a new band, Hamsa, and...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
The Twelve Pins
This instrumental trio of Peter Browne (accordion), Lucas González (guitar) and Robbie Harris (hand percussion) begin their first album with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015
The Faux Paws
With a sound soaked in the contra dance and bluegrass tradition, The Faux Paws (brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2021
The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove
The Rough Guide series may have come fairly late to the tropical vinyl-mining party, but better late than never. And...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014
Dentro Desse Mar
The accordion might sound neither very dancy nor particularly occult, but this quartet from Águeda near Porto do something with...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2019
¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!
Old-time music – that pre-modern amalgam of all the most exciting bits of 19th and early 20th century enter¬tainment careering...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
