Reviews
Brothers of Brazil
Bossa nova never really dies, it just gets repackaged – if never quite like this. While Nouvelle Vague applied the...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2011
Chapel
If you’re thinking Andy Aquarius can’t be his real name, you’d be right. Andy Ozbolt is a singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2021
12 Inches of Dub
During the late 1970s, the Jamaican music scene was completely reconfigured when aspiring producer Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes began working with...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: March/2020
Argentum
Many books and articles have been written about the tortuous relationship between Buenos Aires and its rural hinterland. US-based but...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2016
It is Time for You to Return
Jozef van Wissem is a baroque lute player and self-styled avant-garde composer who recently came to prominence for his soundtrack...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2015
Antique Beats
This is a deft mash-up of musical styles shot with energy; the band's multifarious influences show in their fresh use...
Reviewed by Wendy Rosie Scott in issue: November/2018
The Woman and Her Words
Hannah James & The JigDoll Ensemble
Accordionist, singer and dancer Hannah James has been an adventurous and much-admired figure on the folk scene through her many...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2019
Goodness
Since quitting legendary reggae outfit The Gladiators in 1987, Clinton Fearon hasn’t changed much. Instead, his Seattle-based Boogie Brown Band...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2014
Diwan
Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson
East meets West, a musical plot line as near-universal as boy meets girl, provides the basis for this new collaboration...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Bibirosi
William Takaku & Pidia Kaur Group
Bougainville is an autonomous island region of eastern Papua New Guinea, but geographically, historically and culturally, it’s closely connected to...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2014
