Reviews
Vocês Querem Mate?
Vocês Querem Mate? is the latest instalment in Far Out's ongoing resurrection of the catalogue on Roberto Quartin's long-buried record...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2017
Kişlar Lâl Oldu (Winter Has Fallen Silent)
The strange couple at the heart of this recording is that of Hacıoğlu's silky tenor singing voice, and the divan...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: June/2017
Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)
‘Emergency ethnomusicology,’ as they call it, is a set of urgent interventions needing to be taken to record or preserve...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2017
Vodou Drums in Haiti 2
Vodou – voodoo to most of us – is the hybrid religion that took shape in Haiti as slaves merged...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2017
Unfolding the Roots
Projects such as this, in which everyone is playing the same type of instrument, can often seem like a nerdy...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2017
Melanie
L’Orchestre Afrisa International
These are new recordings of classic repertoire, mostly from the 70s and 80s, when Tabu Ley Rochereau led this wonderful...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2017
Spirituals & Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast
The Gullah communities of the Georgia coast in the southern US first won interest when the pioneering folklorists Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2017
Sounds of the East
A surprising collection of field recordings and re-arrangements of traditional pieces, Sounds of the East follows on from Beronja's Sounds...
Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: June/2017
Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
This second album by the New York duo 75 Dollar Bill made the year-end ‘Best Of’ lists in several UK...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
