Reviews

North Star

Kyle Carey

US-born singer-songwriter Kyle Carey has a pleasing voice, which she wields with deft assuredness and gentle charm. Her music, a...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Os Brazões

Os Brazões

This is a welcome reissue that deserves to sit alongside tropicália classics by the likes of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Devil in the Seat

The Foghorn Stringband

The American, Portland, Oregon-based group The Foghorn Stringband are the epitome of what it means to be an old-time group...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Lead Belly

The recordings of Lead Belly, made between his discovery in prison in 1933 by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Silencia

Ceumar

Not to be confused with her near-namesake, Ceu, veteran jazz singer Ceumar has just as seductive a voice – a...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Meus Quintais

Maria Bethânia

Although she was a key player in the nascent tropicália movement, Maria Bethânia Viana Telles Veloso trod a more conventional...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Volume Two

Corn Potato String Band

Next time you’re thinking about hosting a square dance or a hoedown, give the Corn Potato String Band a holler....

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Têtu

Le Vent du Nord

Québécois quartet Le Vent du Nord really hit home with Tromper Le Temps in 2012, a punchy set of flying...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

A Guide to the Birdsong of South America

VARIOUS ARTISTS

With passions for conservation, bird-watching and South American music, British producer Robin Perkins decided to combine all three here. He...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Tom Zé

Tom Zé

Though his hair was shaggier and face more weathered, in 1970 Tom Zé was still a fair way from becoming...

Reviewed in issue June/2015