Reviews
Love Has Come for You
It’s interesting to ponder what the reception to this album would have been had it been released by a pair...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe
It might not come as a surprise to those familiar with the music of genius banjo player Noam Pikelny that...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Peru Maravilloso
It’s obvious that much crate-digging has been done to put together this compilation, which features many rare tracks and little-known...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Vocal Superstars at King Jammy’s
Probably the most inventive of producer King Tubby’s dub apprentices, King Jammy took computerised reggae and gave it a defibrillating...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Brazilian Beats 7
One of the great things about the Brazilian Beats series is that it has precious few restraints to its remit....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Skycatcher
Hasidic Jewish crossovers aside, New York’s reggae scene has become trademarked by large, brass heavy dub groups who use guest...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Pass the Knowledge
While Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert takes credit for coining the word reggae, and Bob Marley is widely considered reggae’s only true...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
I’m a Dreamer
Prolific American singer-songwriter Josephine Foster has an eclectic back catalogue with projects including reinterpretations of 19th-century German art song, musical...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
The Rough Guide to Voodoo
As compiler Daniel Rosenberg concedes in his liner notes, voodoo, in Western popular culture at least, has never had the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
