Reviews
Uncle
Many reviewers judged the indigenous Pitjantjatjara singer-songwriter Frank Yamma's 2010 acoustic opus Countryman to be a masterpiece. The intervening years...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2015
21st Century Molam
Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band
After moving to Bangkok in 2008, journalist and record collector Chris Menist found a wealth of 7" vinyl treasures in...
Reviewed by Andy Thomas in issue: March/2015
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
