Reviews
New Orleans Funk Vol 4
Soul Jazz Records does a remarkable job in its reissues of Caribbean music and the New Orleans Funk series always...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2017
Tiganeasca
French Gypsy band Les Yeux Noirs take their name from a Django Reinhardt tune. They formed around fiddlers and singers...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011
Me Quité
A gem for Cuban music lovers: a new album from seasoned singer Héctor Valentín, lead vocalist for some of the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021
Cubafonía
This second album by Havana-born singer Daymé Arocena partly came about via ‘a platform for contemporary Cuban creativity driven by...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2017
Rammeslag II
Daniel Sandén-Warg & Sigurd Brokke
As I write, the nominees of the Spellemannprisen, Norway’s Grammy awards, have just been announced. In the category of Best...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2010
From a Heritage Tree
Like so many recent releases, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Daniel Sherrill’s From a Heritage Tree owes its existence, at least...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2022
Balance l’Aurore
Garance Louis & the Mitochondries
The genres dipped into are familiar, but it's the idiosyncrasies that this French singer, composer and accordionist brings to her...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2018
Bellows and Pipes
Markku Lepistö & Mikko Helenius
The sound and grandeur of a vast cathedral, and the intimacy of chamber music: the combination of church organ and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2019
Through the Seasons: A Year in Morris and Folk Dance
Will Pound's incendiary harmonica playing has overshadowed his mastery of the melodeon – an injustice Through the Seasons puts to...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2018
