Reviews
L'Ésprit Créole
With just a few years of performing and a handful of recordings behind him, Cedric Watson has fastened a firm...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Riverboat Soul
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
Hailing from Missouri, US, Pokey LaFarge took off at a young age on the open road, hitching rides with anything...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Chasing Sparks
Fine instrumentalists such as the fiddler Jeremy Kittel will sound good even when the material they're playing isn't quite worthy...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Mambo Loco
Aníbal Velasquez y su Conjunto
In the delightful, if fanciful, film The Motorcycle Diaries, one of the most memorable scenes is one in which Che's...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Can't You Hear the Mountains Calling
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys feat Charlie Sizemore
From the time he formed the original Clinch Mountain Boys with his brother Carter Stanley, while bluegrass music was in...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
En Paris – Live at FIP
Lila Downs, with her unique blend of original songs and reworked classics emphasising human-rights politics, is one of Mexico's great...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Aquarius
Antonio Carlos Jobim once called Joyce one of the greatest singers of all time – praise that the ageless Brazilian...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Peru: Music of the Awajún and Wampis Amazonia, Cenepa Valley
Assessing an album of 36 brief pieces of music from small Amazonian settlements in Peru is a challenging task. The...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
