Reviews
The Space Between
For their new inter-Celtic album, the five-piece Mabon, led by the accordion and voice of Jamie Smith, enlisted Jim Moray...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2016
Manchester's Improving Daily
Edward II have a history going back to the early 80s. The British-Jamaican nonet features a three-strong brass section, the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2016
Coxsone's Music
Record producer Coxsone Dodd found fame through his legendary Studio One, which gave a big break to such names as...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: April/2016
King of My Mind
To start with, Flats and Sharps must be the most audaciously tenuous bluegrass pun-based name around. Yet it is totally...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2016
That Goddam Motorsai! The Best of Lam Phaen Sister No1
This album of molam music from Thailand's north-east region, Isan, is the first of two late 70s/early 80s reissues by...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: April/2016
Yet We Sing
Germany has enjoyed a long-standing love affair with Celtic music, and Cara, featuring four of Germany's finest traditional musicians and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2016
La Vida Llega
This album heralds a double return: Pepe Luis’ reappearance after his time as singer with the flamenco-pop band La Barbería...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: April/2016
City of the Future: Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union
Yale Strom is one of the most adventurous personalities on the American klezmer scene. He's not only recorded over a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2016
Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet
This wonderful selection, devoted to clarinettist Georgi Koev (born 1910), has been recovered by Canadian Yves Moreau from the tape...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2016
Me Decidí
Can it really be five years since the last CD from the Duke of bachata, Joan Soriano? No wonder life's...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: April/2016
