Reviews
Busco Paraíso
We don’t hear enough music from Chile. Many nueva canción singers are dead or retired. Survivors such as Inti-Illimani and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2015
New Anything
Leveret are a squeezebox trio: Sam Sweeney on fiddle and viola; Rob Harbron on English concertina; and Andy Cutting on...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015
I Bow to you Waheguru
Australian-born Sikh singer Manika Kaur returns with a second album, giving us a less conventional presentation of shabadkirtan (Sikh devotional...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2015
Massilia
Massilia Sound System celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2014, a phenomenal achievement for any band. In their native France they’re...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2015
D’Amore e di Altre Cose Irreversibili
This is a mature debut from the singer Floriana Cangiano, who draws on her Italian roots and combines Mediterranean folk...
Reviewed by Valentina Monsurrò in issue: March/2015
The Sounds of Varanasi
The very mention of Varanasi, India's holiest city on the banks of the River Ganges, conjures up the most evocative...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2015
This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
This double-CD box set is the soundtrack to a feature-length documentary, This Ain’t No Mouse Music!, documenting how Chris Strachwitz,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2015
Cape Verde
Those who’ve had their fill of the new Cape Verde artists like Mayra Andrade and Tcheka and are yearning for...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2015
500 Years of Night
Hailing from the Chiapas region of Mexico but based in Toronto, Canada, Quique Escamilla might represent a modern version of...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: March/2015
For Tradition Turn to Nedunuri
These three discs comprise an entire concert performance by one of Karnatic music's greatest singers of the 20th century, Nedunuri...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2015
