Raise your glasses and drink a toast: the new CD by Finnish harmonica quartet Sväng has arrived. This brilliant foursome...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2011
Last year, Femi Kuti made the finest album of his career with Africa For Africa [reviewed in #73], a back-to-basics...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011
This album is the second in the Balkan-ica! series from Green Queen Music, an Italian label run by Luca Gatti...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2011
Reviewing Mor Karbasi's debut CD, it was tempting to compare her with Yasmin Levy, a fellow Jerusalemborn Sephardic singer. It...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2011
Having trawled through leftfield Brazil and captured the cutting edge in Cuba, clubland's favourite diminutive DJ/producer Gilles Peterson has now...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011
You will, no doubt, have heard of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp and the American Alan Lomax. But...
Reviewed by Mark Espiner in issue: June/2011
Singers Paola Lombardo and Valeria Benigni are vocalists with distinctively different qualities: the former retaining her jazz upbringing, the latter...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2011
The former Idlewild singer follows his acclaimed album Before the Ruin, made as a trio with guitarist and singer Kris...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
Listening to these 65 minutes worth of takeaway klezmer interspersed with the odd Ladino number, the words solid, diligent and...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2011
Umpteen albums have come and gone since the original Fairport line-up started playing West Coast pop covers in 1967. As...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
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