It's hard to believe ten years have passed since Session A9 first burst onto the scene in with their raucous...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013
Brothers Cory and Yann Seznec have been playing music together for some 20 years, despite the fact that Cory lives...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2013
The previous solo album from the Bembeya Jazz/Africando singer and voice of Guinea to receive an international release was Sinikan,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
To these ears, the best track on Bassekou Kouyaté's splendid 2006 solo debut Segu Blue was ‘Banani’, a dirty, low-down...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra formed in late 2007 at a series of late night Afrobeat sessions at a Leeds-based jazz venue...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013
Arifa's second CD may not sweep you off your feet like an avalanche but, like the Pied Piper, these four...
Reviewed by Ton Maas in issue: March/2013
Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
There's power in the aoss-traffic of Americans interpreting British traditional music, and vice versa. Bob Dylan's big early songs took...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
One has to admire Jordi Savall, now bravely continuing the campaign he and his wife, the singer Montserrat Figueras, had...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: March/2013
Matt Gordon & Leonard Podolak with Bill Shanley
On Three Thin Dimes, acclaimed fiddler Matt Gordon, of the Fiddle Puppet Dancers band, and clawhammer specialist Leonard Podolak (best...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2013
Colombia's Bomba Estéreo surprised everyone with the lead single from their second album. Gone was the pounding electro-carnival thrum of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2013
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