Reviews
Kamélé Yeleen
Moussa Pantio Diabaté & Baragnouma
Moussa Pantio Diabaté is a balafon (xylophone) player from Burkina Faso. With the help of Arts Council funding he was...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2013
African Tree
I wish I could say that this album lives up to the artist’s laudable idea of planting 500 trees in...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2013
Dear Sister
The 59-year-old singer, songwriter, session vocalist and bandleader Claire Lynch recently signed with Compass Records after a long 18 years...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2013
Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye
Whilst we’re used to hearing lilting scales from vintage Ethiopia, this latest reissue from Awesome Tapes from Africa is like...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2013
You Me Bullets Love
Take a bunch of session players, add two Indian Australian singers, then order several helpings of theatrical, high-energy Bollywood pastiche:...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2013
Floating Letters
I’ve waxed lyrical about Tsuumi Sound System in the past, praising them for their brilliant approach to bringing together Finnish...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2013
Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece, 1905-1956
Greek Rhapsody is an organic, if indirect, extension of a 2005 collaboration between British musician and archivist Tony Klein and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2013
Black Birds are Dancing Over Me
Danny Michel & The Garifuna Collective
For those who do not know him or his work, Danny Michel is a folk-rock singer from Ontario, whose reflective,...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2013
Aurora: Remixes & Originals
To celebrate Azymuth’s 40-something years and 25 studio albums together, the band’s label, Far Out, commissioned an album full of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2013
Fifty Verses
In 2010 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan (winners of Best Duo at the BBC Folk Awards) found life on their...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2013
