Reviews
Rodrigo & Gabriela & C.U.B.A — Area 52
As successful as previous albums from the rocked-up flamenco guitar wizards have been, someone clearly decided it was time to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
A Window to Color
Mamak Khadem has been woefully neglected by UK world music promoters and producers. She started her performing career as lead...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2012
Silêncio
It’s not very clear what Claudia Aurora’s trying to do here. But whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to work....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012
Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée
Hailing from Quebec, where they formed in 1976, La Bottine Souriante have gone on to sell half a million records...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
Live in Amsterdam
What’s outstanding about this re-released first recording of Cristina Branco, from 1997, is not only that we get to hear...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012
There’s More Pretty Girls Than One
This four-piece acoustic ensemble consists of two Americans and two Brits who live in France. One of the Americans is...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
The Speech Project
That a mundane bit of tidying up can inspire a work of the origin¬ality and quality of The Speech Project...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
The Kankobela of the Batonga Volume 2
The kankobela is a smaller version of the more well-known mbira (thumb piano) of Zimbabwe’s Shona people. The people of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Pangea
Pangea is the hypothetical super¬continent, a land mass without borders, whose break-up gave us the continents we know today. Chet...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: March/2012
Gi Mi Pols!
Having each been raised in distinct traditions within the Røros region of central Norway, Ole Jorgen Tamnes in the Brekken...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2012
