Reviews
Rajatila/Borderline
The Finnish a capella quartet Tuuletar made quite an impression with their first album Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal in 2016...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2019
Del Canto Gitano: Music of Ancient Andalusia
The Moorish-occupied Iberian Peninsula, usually referred to as Al-Andalus, is an endless source of fascination. It was a period of...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2021
Journey Through Latin America
Much like tributes and electronica cover albums, classical celebrations of other genres are liable to prompt highly musical yawns or...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013
Mabanzo
This bubbly singer jokes that she grew up ‘pretty much everywhere,’ and there are certainly a lot of influences present...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2022
Safari Boots
Safari Boots are a simple trio of guitar, bass and drums performing African guitar music with influences of predominantly Congolese...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Vamo a Gozá
Supported by the Grammy Foundation, Irka Mateo travelled around the Dominican Republic documenting genres, even bringing one, comarca, to the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018
The Fairest Flower of Womankind
A native of Montana, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a traditional balladeer, Lindsay Straw infuses familiar and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2017
I Like it Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)
Pianist Pete Rodriguez is one of the pioneers of Nuyorican music – Puerto Rican musicians in New York City –...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020
Live at St George’s
One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
Pratibha
One of 20th century India's truly great musicians, the Bengali sitar player Nikhil Banerjee, had an exceptional grasp of the...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011
