Reviews
Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée
Hailing from Quebec, where they formed in 1976, La Bottine Souriante have gone on to sell half a million records...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
Live in Amsterdam
What’s outstanding about this re-released first recording of Cristina Branco, from 1997, is not only that we get to hear...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012
There’s More Pretty Girls Than One
This four-piece acoustic ensemble consists of two Americans and two Brits who live in France. One of the Americans is...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
The Speech Project
That a mundane bit of tidying up can inspire a work of the origin¬ality and quality of The Speech Project...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
The Kankobela of the Batonga Volume 2
The kankobela is a smaller version of the more well-known mbira (thumb piano) of Zimbabwe’s Shona people. The people of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Pangea
Pangea is the hypothetical super¬continent, a land mass without borders, whose break-up gave us the continents we know today. Chet...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: March/2012
Gi Mi Pols!
Having each been raised in distinct traditions within the Røros region of central Norway, Ole Jorgen Tamnes in the Brekken...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2012
The Fragile
O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
Tiritando
Antonio Gonzalez Batista helped pioneer the fusion of flamenco and Latin rumba rhythms that has had such an enduring impact...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
Noise & Chill Out – Ethiopian Groove Worldwide
The ‘Ethiopianisation’ of certain bands and their music is a curious, unpredicted scenario. Even sou-kous in its 80s peak didn’t...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: March/2012
