Reviews
Murmurations
The album art for Murmurations is a work of some genius – each individual cover features a unique image, in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Jamaica: Rhythm & Blues 1956-1961
The years 1956 and 1961 brought two key events to Jamaica’s musical history. The dates also provide well chosen bookends...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985
Africa collided with Latin America in myriad ways, from the complex rhythms of son, the Yoruba pulse underpinning cumbia to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79
Soundway are on a roll at the moment, with new projects and compilations such as this that steadily mine the...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Into the Bloodstream
Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach has had a tough life. A member of Australia’s ‘stolen generation, forcibly removed from his family...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds
Conjunto is the music of working class Mexican Americans across the south-west. Los Texmaniacs are four Texan veterans who have...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
From Senegal to the World: 80s Classics & Rarities
Youssou N’Dour began the 80s as the hub of a dynamic emerging music scene in Senegal and ended them being...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Groupe Folklorique Martiniquais
Singer-songwriter Loulou Boislaville led the Groupe Folklorique Martiniquais from 1966 to 1981, building on the multi-genre ensemble’s already substantial success...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Our Lady of the Tall Trees
From the first track to the last, the sonorous twang and thrum of Cahalen Morrison & Eli West’s music is...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
On Bluestockings
A graduate of Newcastle University’s Folk and Traditional Music degree course, McCormick was involved in the Song Links 2 project...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
