Reviews
Balkan Beats SoundLab
You can certainly pass a pleasant enough hour listening, dancing or jogging to this. It's a kind of wantonly random...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013
Black Box
In his 2004 album Swing Swing, guitarist, composer and producer Nicolas Repac took a futuristic journey through the history of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: March/2013
Old Man Below
The Dust Busters with John Cohen
Formed in 2008, The Dust Busters are the upper crust of the new generation of old-time string bands that have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2013
968 CR13
Massilia Sound System surged out of the 80s underground party scene in Marseille. They're the group that pretty much single-handedly...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
La Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba
La Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba
One of the island's wonderful historic musical institutions, the 114-year-old municipal brass band of Santiago continues to soldier on, notwithstanding...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: March/2013
Sailing Back to You
Mick McAuley, Winifred Horan & Colm Ó Caoimh
What does one make of an album by three traditional musicians of the Irish genre that features a retro French...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: March/2013
Electric
Buddy Miller produced Richard Thompson's latest album in his home studio in Nashville. It shows in the sound, which swings...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Decemberwell
An ambitious challenge was the impetus for Mike Vass’ new album. He aimed to compose and record it in just...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013
