Reviews
Let's Go
The four daughters of the Reverend Sam McCrary (leader of noted gospel group The Fairfield Four) have built quite a...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2015
The Turning Tide
Crikey, another Solas album? It seems only a moment ago that I reviewed the band’s For Love and Laughter. OK,...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2010
Schodsbergs Notebok
Jorun Marie Kvernberg & Øyvind Sandum | Sandén-Warg, Berglund, Rydberg, Lund, Gorset & Claeson
The Nordic countries have been assiduous in collecting and codifying their folk music, and these two recordings show two different...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Hotel Univers
Jupiter & Okwess International
For someone releasing his debut album, Jupiter Bokondji – the self-styled ‘rebel general’ of Congolese music – has been around...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
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Turkey on the Edge (Soundtrack)
Turkey, ruled since 2002 by an increasingly autocratic Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, experienced an unsuccessful military coup on July 15 2016....
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: May/2018
La Grande Fête
From its opening, soothing ooooh-oooohs, the third album from Belcirque has a clean, elegant sound. That might be due to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021
Dacw’r Tannau
Chris Jones started out singing unaccompanied traditional Welsh songs more than 20 years ago. He began picking up songs from...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
La Caminadora
Produced in under a month, this seven-track album of covers is a joyous whistle-stop tour through the energy and vibrancy...
Reviewed by Tutku Barbaros in issue: May/2019
The Whiting’s on the Wall
Paul Sartin and Paul Hutchinson just can’t help themselves. If ever one tune reminds them of another - for even...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: June/2014
Gaita na Fábrica: Sounds from the Squeezebox Factory
The fábrica – as in factory – of the title refers to a physical space in Porto Alegre where Borghetti...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
