Reviews
The Descendants
“Paradise? Paradise can go f**k itself,’ utters the male protagonist of The Descendants, played by George Clooney. A sense of...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Chico: The Definitive Collection 1970-1984
All electric-blue eyes and honeyed voice, even at 68 Chico Buarque remains the debonair renaissance man par excellence, a Brazilian...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Romantech
The New York Gypsy All Stars are a young five-piece band, playing contemporary Turkish and Balkan music. I was lucky...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Suitcase Blues
Less is more when it comes to the Harris Brothers. For the better part of two decades, the sibling duo...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Deeper in the Well
Eric Bibb: son of Leon Bibb, a fixture in the folk revival scene of the 1960s; nephew of John Lewis,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Rough Guide to Bluegrass
Call me a sucker for heart-wrenching songs about hard-living folks, but this compilation of 18 tracks assembled by journalist Dan...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Who's Feeling Young Now?
Their cover version of ‘Kid A’ makes it explicit, but the Punch Brothers’ indie-band influences are immediately obvious right from...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Live at Town Hall
For my money The Klezmatics have been the most important band on the klezmer scene over the past 25 years....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Rio de Janeiro
If too much sun leads to a prematurely furrowed brow, no-one's told Joyce: it's difficult to think of another sexagenarian...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
La Barra de Chocolate
If the last three decades have seen world music celebrate diversity and ethnicity, there was a period around the late...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
