Reviews
The Twelve Pins
This instrumental trio of Peter Browne (accordion), Lucas González (guitar) and Robbie Harris (hand percussion) begin their first album with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015
Sikoses
The Nicosia-based trio Monsieur Doumani have returned with a truly sterling effort on their second album. It features reworkings of...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2015
Meus Quintais
Although she was a key player in the nascent tropicália movement, Maria Bethânia Viana Telles Veloso trod a more conventional...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2015
Ring Road
Mohamed Abozekry & Heejaz Extended
Based in France for over five years, the young Egyptian oud virtuoso Mohamed Abozekry recently presented his second album in...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: June/2015
Gossip
This is veteran Malian singer Khaira Arby's first album in five years, recorded in 2010 and 2012 in various parts...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2015
Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66
This double-CD set captures the ‘colonial’-influenced dance music of Anglophone West Africa, from shortly before and after Ghanaian and Nigerian...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2015
Volume Two
Next time you’re thinking about hosting a square dance or a hoedown, give the Corn Potato String Band a holler....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2015
Stories Sung, Truths Told
Recorded in just one week in summer 2014 and produced by Jim Moray, Stories Sung, Truths Told ably shows off...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2015
Let's Get Low
This album by English cellist and singer-songwriter Barney Morse-Brown marks the beginning of what might be a more poppy sound....
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2015
The Longest River
Olivia Chaney released EPs in 2010 and 2013, contributed towards the Peter Bellamy tribute album Oak Ash and Thorn, and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2015
