Reviews
Gone Away Backward
There should be a special award for this kind of high-level deployment of a musical ensemble. Fulks, a skilled acoustic...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador
The town of Otavalo, high up in the Ecuadorian Andes, is renowned for its crafts and its indigenous folk music....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Sousamaphone
The rising popularity of American brass bands – Hot 8 Brass Band and Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
High Moon Order
Bluegrass music is not going to hell in the hands of young post-rock performers, rest assured. But I have detected...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
This World Oft Can Be
The second full-length album by Boston-based Della Mae demonstrates that the all-female quintet are presently in a sweet spot, one...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Pickin’-n-Chckin’
Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys
In most cases, the borders between the band’s Prince Edward Island homeland and the rest of North America aren’t apparent...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Virgin Islands: Quelbe & Calypso 1956-60
Following Caribbean classics compilations from Jamaica, Bermuda and Trinidad, one on the Virgin Islands musical history could present an intriguing...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
If there is a precedent for promoting a soundtrack in a similar way to the campaign for the forthcoming movie...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Sweet Nostalgia
‘I take comfort in being able to express fragments of the past through songs of old love and sounds of...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Fists of Violets
Record store categories are disappearing along with the retail stores that made use of them. And that may in some...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
