This album gave me an epiphany – of the wrong kind. Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson once wrote, ‘if nostalgia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2012
Ivete Sangalo, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso
Whilst most lovers of Brazilian music will be familiar with tropicalia founders Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, fewer will know...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2012
From the opening notes of Vieux Farka Tomé's spare acoustic guitar riff, backed by fellow Souleymane Kane's gently tapped calabash...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2012
With his consistently excellent Viagem series, Italian jazz don Nicola Conte has compiled some of the richest, strangest and most...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2012
These are songs from the Scottish islands, from Shetland in the north to Ailsa Craig in the south, sung in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2012
The first thing most listeners would think upon hearing young Aboriginal band East Journey is that we’ve heard this before....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012
It’s a rare album that grabs you with every track, but Appalachian quartet Furnace Mountain have managed it with The...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: October/2012
The music collective Sofrito have once again teamed up with Strut following the success of their 2011 release Sofrito: Tropical...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: October/2012
Billed as a ‘traveller's diary’, Bossa Muffn sees Brazilian singer/ acoustic guitarist Flavia Coelho conduct a roots trip back from...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012
The Unthanks with Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band
Having fairly recently moved to West Yorkshire, I have to agree with Unthanks pianist and composer Adrian McNally that brass...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2012
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