Reviews
New York Afternoon
Any momentary disquiet on hearing guest vocalist Marc Evans’ lounge-lizard take on the title-track was quickly dispelled by what follows....
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Quelbe!
Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights
A few years after Frémeaux's two-CD compilation Virgin Islands Quelbe and Calypso 1956-60, comes a new release from a contemporary...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Never More Together
Oliver Swain is clearly a very talented chap. Not only does he play double-bass, banjo and guitar extremely well, but...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Wa Di Yo
Grabbing you by the scruff of the neck from the get-go, this nine-strong collective pays homage to Haiti's varied traditions,...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Morning in a New Machine
What does it take to work wonders with small things? Try taking a reverential approach to American folk music, taking...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Two Friends, One Century of Music
In August 2015 the two great names of tropicália – Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil – performed an all-acoustic set...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Traditional Greenlandic Music Vol 1-5 (1906-1989)
This impressive edition was compiled by the ethnomusicologist Michael Hauser and Karsten Sommer, a well-known figure in Greenland's music industry....
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Orchids and Violence
A talented young guitarist and immediately likeable singer, Michael Daves made one of the most enjoyable bluegrass albums of recent...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
78rpm
Like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Canadian trio of Sheesham Crow on fiddle and harmonica, Lotus Wight, on banjo and...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Lotus Wight's Ode to the Banjo
Lotus Wight is the nom du guerre of Toronto native Sam Allison, a songster, folklorist, poet, fiddler, banjo historian and...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
