Reviews
Roll Up the Night Sky
Canadian Dana Sipos has one of those voices usually described in words such as ethereal, ghostly, pastoral or ‘almost identical...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2015
The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujević
Musical relations between the US and Croatia are of long standing, with some of the earliest recordings of the tamburica...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2015
The Indispensable 1955-1962
Once music goes out of its 50-year copyright, open season follows on the reissues market. Two issues ago I reviewed...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2015
Por Ahí
Born and raised in Mexico City, but based in Brooklyn since 2002, Rana Santacruz styles himself as a Latino heir...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2015
Elementuak
After touring as guest performers on Madonna's 2012 MDNA tour, Basque trio Kalakan sat down to re-centre themselves and record...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2015
La Ruta de la Pantera
Having borrowed their album's title (‘The Way of the Panther’) from a Marvel comic, and previously reinvented Henry Mancini's Pink...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2015
Wing of Evening
The vocal percussion on the Scottish whaling song ‘Greenland’ that opens this album typifies the raw beauty that is exhibited...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2015
Athamra
Lamia Bedioui & The Desert Fish
This musical tour of the Mediterranean works on a number of levels. Firstly, and most importantly, it works musically. Knitting...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2015
