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, 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
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 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
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
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
This is the first collaboration between the Vietnamese singer and instrumentalist Ngo Hong Quang and the Dutch composer and arranger...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: June/2012
Sumeet Anand Pandey is a tenth generation singer of dhrupad, India’s ancient song form that began as devotional music in...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/2021
LA-based Aditya Prakash began his training in Karnatic singing when he was eight years old, and he has since toured...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: November/2016
This son of musical parents “wanted to be a Puerto Rican version” of Lenny Kravitz in his early teens. Instead,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
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