Reviews
Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más
Everybody knows at least one son jarocho, even if they don’t realise it, and chances are they heard it while...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Choke Cherry Tree
Choke Cherry Tree finds founding band members Ben Miller (vocals, guitar) and Scott Leeper (washtub bass, backing vocals) joined by...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
What’s appealingly apparent in the opening moments of this album’s first track, recorded 91 years ago, is that the instrument...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Absolutely The… Uniques
Sweet harmonies reign supreme on this previously ultra-rare Trojan release, available now for the first time since 1968. In Jamaica,...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Mambo Cosmico
Sonido Gallo Negro are a nine-piece band from Mexico City who are intent on exploring the outer limits of cumbia....
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Reggae Power/Woman Capture Man
Whatever the line-up, vocal harmony group The Ethiopians have always been the vehicle of Leonard Dillon. A convert to Rastafarianism,...
Reviewed in issue May/2018
Too Hot to Sleep
The debut album by accordionist and pianist Sam Reider, supported by his band, the Human Hands, manifests all his joyfully...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
See You Around
After years of teasing us – an impromptu debut at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2014, a world tour and...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
The Spirit of God & Madness
In the publicity for this five-person string-and-vocal group, their home base — Vancouver, British Columbia — is credited as being...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
Carta a mi Amada
The ultimate world music, tango had crossed the globe many decades before any such phrase was coined. It is a...
Reviewed in issue April/2018
