Reviews
Legends & Legacies
In the world of accordion-driven Tejano conjunto music, or Tex-Mex, the Grammy-award winners Flaco Jiménez and Max Baca are both...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2014
Ketan
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017
3
There's no sign of The Gloaming losing that special touch on their third studio album, which opens with an intense...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019
Ionia
Like so many of their contemporaries on the 21st-century roots scene, Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys shuffle through a gamut...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Pan Atlantico
Pan Atlantico is a powerful and deeply-moving album that fuses Latin, North American and European styles. Performed live, the sound...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2022
Best of Mariza
This really is exactly what it says: highlights from the career of the extraordinary fado singer who released her debut...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2014
Puerta del Sur
American salsa this good traditionally hails from New York, courtesy of the Fania label. But Bio Ritmo's 11th album to...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Afghan Rubab with Songbirds
Rahim Khushnawaz (c1947-2011) was one of the great rubab players of Afghanistan. But he comes from Herat rather than Kabul,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2016
