Reviews
Haiti Direct – Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978
What a truly wonderful collection of music there is on Strut's latest outing into the musical unknown! While Cuban and...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Apr/May/2014
The South African Meeting of Viramundo
After standing down as Brazil's minister of culture, the legendary singer Gilberto Gil undertook a southern hemisphere tour to Australia...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamso in issue: Apr/May/2014
Charge
Alumni of the folk music degree course at Newcastle University, this energetic five-piece make a very modern marriage of ceilidh...
Reviewed by Graeme Thomson in issue: Apr/May/2014
The Rough Guide to the Best African Music You've Never Heard
In The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard, a book published in 2009, this author explored some...
Reviewed by Nigel Willamson in issue: Apr/May/2014
De Platino
This Belgium-based band take their name (meaning ‘the bodysnatcher’) from a novel by Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguay's most celebrated fiction-writer....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2014
Me Sijum Underground/I Am Underground
There's long been an underground Roma rap scene across Eastern Europe – in the late noughties Czech rapper GypsyCZ attracted...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Apr/May/2014
A Lindisfarne Gospel
In the early eighth century on Holy Island in Northumberland, a man named Eadfrith, working alone, created a glorious masterpiece,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2014
Borders Behind
You can understand the youngest of the three Joubran brothers wanting to branch out and record his own album. Le...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2014
Si Vita Si
If you're imagining Barbara Furtuna as a comely chanteuse from mainland France – perhaps you've spotted that Jacques Brel's ‘Song...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Apr/May/2014
