Reviews
Live at Lagny Jazz Festival
There aren’t many Cape Verdean diaspora artists with the audacity to segue between Cesaria Evora's ‘Sodade’ and the Sound of...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2014
Wicked Leaders
Ghanaian popular music is currently dominated by both religious music and the genre known as hiplife. King Ayisoba is well-known...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2014
Dernier Appel
The singer Tiken Jah Fakoly is next in line to Alpha Blondy on the somewhat specialised Ivory Coast reggae scene,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2014
Quilombo
Osvaldo Hernandéz-Napoles is a Mexican singer-songwriter and percussionist who has been based in Brussels for the last 24 years. Quilombo...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2014
Isan Lam Plearn
Angkanang Kunchai with Ubon-Pattana Band
Thai popular music compilers Maft Sai and Chris Menist of Sound of Siam fame have now released a solo-artist compilation,...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: October/2014
Old Tunes, Dusted Down
It wouldn’t be everyone's idea of a fantastic surprise birthday present. But the Belgian mandolin player Andries Boone is a...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: October/2014
That's It!
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band derive their name, as you might expect, from Preservation Hall, the venerable music venue that...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2014
Camino
Gustavo Santaolalla gets around. Whether on home visits to Argentina, European tours with Bajofondo or work trips around his adopted...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2014
Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel's Lemberg Yiddish Theatre 1906-1910
This extraordinary collection of Yiddish theatre songs, produced by Julian Futter and Mike Aylward, is the outcome of a ten-year...
Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: October/2014
Calypso/Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean
‘Day-o! Day-ay-ay-o! Daylight come and me wan’ go home.’ Everyone knows Belafonte's ‘Banana Boat Song’. For several decades following its...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2014
