Reviews

Tam… Tam… Tam…! Reimagined

Sonzeira de Gilles Peterson

It's fair to say that Gilles Peterson was bowled over when he heard the lost Brazilian classic Tam… Tam… Tam…!...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

MM3

Metá Metá

It's slightly disappointing that this São Paulo four-piece's third album opens with a brooding Joy Division-style chord progression that then...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Apikorsim/Heretics

The Klezmatics

From New York, The Klezmatics have been shaking up the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for 30 years now. So...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Wolves a’ Howlin’

Kieran Towers & Charlotte Carrivick

This pair of talented instrumentalists don’t look old enough to be playing music this long in the tooth. Fiddler Kieran...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Wild Blue Yonder

The Western Flyers

The knowingly kitsch cover says it all really: a trio of country musicians aboard a covered wagon, flying like Santa's...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Ramblin Feels Good

Jeff Scroggins & Colorado

This is a fine showcase for the hard-driving mainstream bluegrass fare upon which Scroggins and Colorado have established a solid...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Nine Pin

Kaia Kater

Born to Afro-Caribbean parents in Québec and having lived and studied banjo in West Virginia's Appalachian mountains marks Kaia Kater...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

ABUC

Roberto Fonseca

It's not hard to spot that ABUC is Cuba spelt backwards, and on this album, pianist Roberto Fonseca takes the...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Chaim Tannenbaum

Chaim Tannenbaum

Anyone who knows Loudon Wainwright III or Kate and Anna McGarrigle's music will be familiar with the work of Chaim...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Hunter & the Hunted

Fellow Pynins

Fans of the softer, gentler side of the neo-folk Americana spectrum will be enthralled by Hunter & the Hunted, the...

Reviewed in issue December/2016