Various Artists – The Most Beautiful Songs of the World (ARC Music EUCD2648, 2016) The Most Beautiful Songs of the World is a selection of…
Most Beautiful Songs of the World
Category: Album reviews
Atmospheric Folk Music from Manchester
The Breath – Carry Your Kin (Real World Records, 2016) Carry Your Kin deliver a form of ethereal folk where we find a combination of…
Jembe Maestro from Burkina Faso
Adama Dramé : Dakan (Buda Musique CD 4790380, 2016) Master drummer Adama Dramé, from Burkina Faso, celebrates his 50-year career with Dakan. Dramé is one…
Mesmerizing Tarantella Beats from Southern Italy
Giuliano Gabriele – Madre (iWorld, 2015) Madre (Mother) is the second album by multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer Giuliano Gabriele, one of the rising stars of…
Transfixing Welsh Folk Music
9Bach Anian (Real World, 2016) Anian is the new album by contemporary Welsh folk band 9Bach. This group to be one of the most exciting…
A Bold, Tense Album by Elza Soares
Elza Soares – The Woman at the End of the World (Mais Um Discos, 2016) The Woman at the End of the World (originally released…
There’s A Light by Liz Vice
Liz Vice is a singer of neo-gospel: music that sounds pretty close to the gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe used the blues and invented…
An Afro-Roots Experiment That Worked
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra (Glitterbeat, 2016) Nigerian Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen recorded a set of jams rooted in Afro-rooted rhythms from Africa and Haiti that appear…
Landmark Bella Ciao Revisited
Riccardo Tesi, Lucilla Galeazzi, Elena Ledda, Ginevra di Marco, Gigi Biolcati, Andrea Salvadori, Alessio Lega – Bella Ciao (Buda Musique 4759288, 2015) Bella Ciao revisits…
Beguiling Gulaza
Gulaza – a word that conjures images of longing and despair under a scorching desert sun. The first time I went to listen to this…