Reviews
Loé Loá: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree
Betsayda Machado & Parranda El Clavo
It's hard to think of any field recording – this was captured under a mango tree, as the title suggests...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2017
Initiatrix
Heloise Pilkington's Halloween-released Initiatrix is an original and thoughtfully constructed piece of work. A collection of original songs and chants...
Reviewed by Jahnavi Harrison in issue: December/2017
Entreverados
Gato, zamba, chacarera, milonga: these musics were the seedbed from which tango sprung and have since become an ongoing rural...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2017
Will You?
Shujaat Husain Khan, Kevin Hays, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tim Ries & Dibyarka Chatterjee
Perhaps there is something about the texts of the great Persian-language poet Rumi that chime with the times we are...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2017
The Rough Guide to Holy Blues
Featuring 25 tracks of vintage acoustic blues – almost all of them dating from the 1920s and 30s – this...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2017
Anthologie du Patrimoine Phonographique Breton 1925-1960
This is a tribute to a forgotten pioneer of the post-war rebirth of Breton music: Hermann Wolf, who made some...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: December/2017
Coat-Tails Flying
Being able to play just about any kind of music on any kind of squeezebox (with buttons, that is), John...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2017
End of the World Remixes
Remix albums are notoriously a mixed bag and this one's no different, with a handful of Portuguese and Brazilian remixers,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2017
Toy Raha Toy
Toko Telo means ‘Group of Three’ in Malagasy and the band is a trio of Madagascar's top-level talent: D'Gary, Monika...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2017
Gnawa or Never
Maalem Said Damir & Gnawa Allstars
It is difficult to record Gnawa music well – the sonic mix of the gimbri's (lute) deep bass and the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017
