Reviews
Ossicles
A musical journey connecting Africa and the Middle East to the mountains and valleys of Norway is one that few...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Por Meu Cante
Por Meu Cante was originally released in 2004 and it’s the second of Antonio Zambujo’s albums. Although his singing only...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Tell My Sister
They were the unlikeliest of pop stars: two sisters from the ancient Laurentian moun¬tain range north¬west of Montreal, plain-spoken homebodies...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Cicada
As someone once noted, if you haven’t heard them, it’s hard to describe what Hazmat Modine do, but if you...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Sport and Play
This is an austere and sparse collection of ballads from the fresh¬faced young singer, guitarist and fiddler who picked up...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Concert Program
The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Balkan Brass Battle
Any visitor to the Guča festival will have witnessed the raucous spectacle of two sweat-soaked brass bands angrily trying to...
Reviewed by Joe Walker in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Malk
Given the pheno¬menal international success of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunu-pingu's 2008 solo album, the blind Aboriginal singer's earlier work has sometimes...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Take The High Road
There’s an obvious parallel between the Blind Boys of Alabama and South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Both are veteran vocal...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Noche de Carnaval
You have to give Juan Carlos Cáceres credit for productivity – and for effort. No sooner have we let one...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
