Reviews

Fabiola

Da Lata

Da Lata first appeared on our horizon in the mid-90s when their largely Brazilian-scented grooves found great favour with DJ...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Old Buck

Old Buck

Most of these tunes are as tried-and-true traditional old¬time as the classic instrumental line-up (fiddle, banjo, bass, guitar and mandolin)...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Gone Away Backward

Robbie Fulks

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

Hatun Kotama

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

Riot Jazz Brass Band

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

Betse Ellis

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

Della Mae

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

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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