Reviews
Durrant y Ledesma
Richard Durrant & Ismael Ledesma
The harp rose to prominence in the monkish missions of southern South America. In Paraguay, where rural society has survived...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
The Fairest Flower of Womankind
A native of Montana, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a traditional balladeer, Lindsay Straw infuses familiar and...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Presents… Kingsize Blackfoot
Jinder is one Phil Dewhurst, a West Country based musician who is very tall and has Blackfoot Sioux bloodlines in...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
The Rough Guide to Ragtime Blues
World Music Network seem to issue their Rough Guides to The Blues at an almost monthly rate – which suggests...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Marimba del Pacífico
Spanish-speaking South America's African music remains a largely untold story. For more than two centuries the culture of those descended...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Shame
If Nashville singer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman's debut solo album were a time of day, it would be a warm...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
American Folk Fantasies Vol 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade
Dick Connette doesn't see music in terms of white and black, urban or rural, folk or funk, blues or country....
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Brazilian Landscapes
Michala Petri, Marilyn Mazur, Daniel Murray
This decidedly erudite CD is like a classically tinged Codona trio album for the new millennium. Like Don Cherry and...
Reviewed in issue October/2017
Avrakedabra
Jamaica's premier family band, Morgan Heritage, are back with their second album in two years, hoping to build on 2015's...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Guitarra Mía: Tangos by Gardel and Piazzolla
Carlos Gardel (1890-1935) and Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) remain the undisputed giants of Argentinian tango. The former was a crooner, film...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
