Reviews
Veracruz: Sones y Flores
Think of a male/female acoustic guitar duo, add Mexico to the equation and you may well come up with Rodrigo...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2021
El Bueno y el Malo
Swiss-Ecuadorian guitar duo Hermanos Gutiérrez make their intentions clear from the first twang of heavily-reverbed guitar. Sitting somewhere between Tarantino...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: January/February/2023
J’ai Traversé La Mer
Apparently involved in the avant-garde scene, Edmony Krater brings none of that malarkey here, as he subjects his Guadeloupean heritage...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2020
Via de la Plata
Playing an album by a Spanish pianist on ACT Music, you might immediately expect to hear some variety of flamenco...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: January/February/2022
Vangasay
A vangasay is a Type of mandarin orange from Madagascar and Vietnam, popular in the islands across the Indian Ocean...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020
La Marche du Bonheur
Celebrating cultural differences, the richness of their respective heritages and the chance to further decolonise France’s imperial past, this virtuosic...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2025
An Dà Là – The Two Days
After three years of near-constant touring, this six-piece band’s third album finds Ewen Henderson taking over lead vocals from now-departed...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2017
Agua en la Boca
We tend to think of fado as an uncompromising, impassioned, dark-hued genre. María Berasarte was born in San Sebastian, sings...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2014
La Negra: The Definitive Collection
With neither ‘Gracias a la Vida’ nor ‘Maria Maria’ on it, this double album is not quite the definitive collection...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
La Légende de Dakar
One thing that can never be faked or replicated is the easy, yet super-tight swing of a band that has...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
