Reviews
Beginner’s Guide to Latin America
‘Ay, caramba!’, how do you do a beginn¬er’s guide to the music of more than 30 countries, with more than...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
Early Congo Music 1946-1962: First Rumba, to the Real Rumba
Early Congo Music 1946-1962 has been compiled and annotated by Japanese collector Yoshiki Fukasawa. His unusual sub-title comes from the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2019
LAUTyodeln: Fern-Nah-Weit
This is a selection of the finest yodels performed at LAUTyodeln, a festival in Munich last June. It displays the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2017
Inuusiq/Life
In order to secure his bandmate Nancy Mike's hand in marriage, The Jerry Cans’ lead singer and guitarist Andrew Morrison...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2017
Ashore
June Tabor was born in Warwickshire, right in the middle of England, where Shakespeare came from. You can’t be more...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2011
Caribbean Roots
Poet and spoken-word performer Anthony Joseph was born and raised in Trinidad, but has long lived in London, where he...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016
While Rome Burns
In last year's referendum, Scotland voted to remain in the European Union, and the title of Scottish-based trio Bellevue Rendezvous’...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/2017
Medicine Songs
Buffy Sainte-Marie was one of the breakout stars of the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. Not only was she...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018
Touki
Senegalese singer Modou Touré has big shoes to fill as the son of Ousmane Touré, lead singer of the legendary...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020
Mara la Fatìa
Translating as ‘working is hard and bitter,’ Mara la Fatìa is this outstanding Salento musician’s second solo CD. Castrignanò debuted...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
