Reviews
The Vienna Tapes
In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Rujo
I first heard Antti Paalanen when he released Breathbox (2010). In the audience was Kimmo Pohjonen who'd had such strong...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2020
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Uzelli Elektro Saz (1976-1984)
Following on the heels of its Psychedelic Anadolu selection from 2017, legendary Turkish label Uzelli has come out with a...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Monstruos y Duendes Vol 1: Myfyrio
So many non-Spanish guitarists have fallen under the spell of flamenco that it might almost be considered a sub-genre of...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2020
Te yn y Grug (Tea in the Heather)
Welsh musician Al Lewis is well established as a singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as half of Americana...
Reviewed by Elliw Iwan in issue: May/2020
Amoreamaro
There many reasons to admire singer Maria Mazzotta: for her voice, of course, so brilliant, intimate and dramatic; for her...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2020
Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70
Apala is a style of call-and-response music popular in the Islamic culture of the Yoruba population of south-west Nigeria. It...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Bonny Light Horseman
Seven years ago, Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer released Child Ballads, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award the following...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Amália Classics on Portuguese Guitar
While never the diva, Custódio Castelo has nevertheless been an animating presence in the world of fado for many decades...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: May/2020
Play Disco Specials
This is a reissue of the 1976 album originally released by the JAS Pride label in South Africa. The set-up...
Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: May/2020
