Reviews

Isle of Magic

Mop Mop

Who are Mop Mop? It appears they are a multi-instrumental Italian seven-piece who have a passion for African diaspora music...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2013

Two Friends, One Century of Music

Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil

In August 2015 the two great names of tropicália – Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil – performed an all-acoustic set...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2016

Heard a Long Gone Song

Lisa O'Neill

Lisa O'Neill won plaudits in the folk world for her 2016 debut Pothole in the Sky. This led to her...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2019

Jaiyede Afro

Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics

Orlando Julius should be much more famous outside his native Nigeria. One of the pioneers of Afrobeat, this is the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2014

Ronald Mesquita

Ronald Mesquita

Like many Brazilian albums of this generation, it's evident that this self-titled release by Brazilian drummer Ronald Mesquita relies on...

Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: May/2019

Contracorriente

El Balcón

Contracorriente, the third album from El Balcón, is alive with the unique vibrancy and musical playfulness of son jarocho, traditional...

Reviewed by Kary Stewart in issue: November/2021

Divanegi

Pedram Delara

Residing in the Gilan Province of northern Iran, Pedram Delara is a young tombak (goblet drum) soloist and rhythm composer....

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2021

The Night Out

Monkey See Monkey Do

The Night Out is the debut album of this Southampton-based quartet, whose music is firmly rooted in the English and...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: November/2020

Core [Coração]

Maria Pia de Vito

There is such an alluring charm to the words Chico Buarque pens for his own songs that it is almost...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2017

Folk Music of China Vol 5: Aboriginal Folk Songs of Taiwan

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Most of the Austronesianlanguage songs from Taiwan featured on the latest instalment of Naxos World's Folk Music of China series...

Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: June/2020