Reviews
Pesebre
For all its pedigree, contemporary music from Argentina can be a little predictable. As modern tangueros like Orquesta Típica Fernández...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Looking Glass
Fay Hield is the first new signing to Topic Records for a decade. Topic is the oldest independent label in...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
African Soul Revolutionary
Every slick studio release Baaba Maal puts on the market tends to prompt someone to release some unmixed, live or...
Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Rough Guide to Greek Café
This disc is impressive, covering a great deal of ground from 1960s laïká to later more eclectic and Anatolian-inspired tracks,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Classical Bhajans
A charismatic leader, preacher and singer of bhajans (Hindu devotional hymns) Swamy Haridhos has evolved a musical style which combines...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Roots of Chicha II
I imagine a lot of Peruvian women have enjoyed dancing on the dance floor to the female singer of Manzanita...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Buenosaurios: Leyendas de la Noche de los Tangos
Acho Estol y la Orquesta Moscas de Bar
Acho Estol is one of Argentina's leading contemporary tango lights, best known for his performances with his band La Chicana,...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Les Nomades du Niger: Fulanis, Bororos & Touaregs
Here's a quaint item. In the mid-70s the ethnomusicologist François Jouffa compiled some recordings made in Niger by a certain...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Great Expectation
A folk style with ensemble vocals, banjo and distinct African percussion, mento was Jamaica's leading style from the 1920s onwards,...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Six Days in Down
Bob Brozman, John McSherry & Dónal O'Connor
Interviewing John McSherry earlier this year, the Belfast-born uilleann piper waxed both lyrically and enthusiastically about a recording session that...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
