Reviews
Innocent Road
Hitting the ‘play’ button is like cranking up a time machine set to Grand Ole Oprycirca 1960. The easy-chugging strains...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2017
Salsa Vintage
Based in the Netherlands since 1992, Venezuelan percussionist Gerardo Rosales has played with such big-hitters as Oscar D’León, Jimmy Bosch,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2017
Damar
The almost presidential aura exuded by the Bosnian and Herzegovinian singer and humanitarian in the monochrome photo that graces the...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2017
Momentum
The third album from these three Flemish brothers finds them building impressively on the success of previous offerings Modus Operandi...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2017
Trail of Tales
This is the fifth album released by the award-winning Canadian acoustic roots quintet since 2000. Trail of Tales features a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2017
Gunfan Yellem!
‘East meets West’ is a common theme within world music fusions, but it's rare to hear one like this: Damakase's...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2017
The Spirit of the Mountains
Trebunie-Tutki & Quintet Urmuli
The Trebunie-Tutki are Poland's best-known band playing traditional podhale (highland) music, but they are also famed for their reggae fusions...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2017
Mask Dance
The Korean quartet Black String take their name from the geomungo, the funkiest of Korea's zithers, whose name translates as...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2017
Just My Soul
This is the fourth album by Erik Aliana, the first two having been in the Bikutsi and Makossa styles of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2017
