Reviews
Esencia
Studio-recorded mariachi needs to be kept loose and as live-sounding as possible to work at all. With its female and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
One Night String Band Vol One
Old Spot, Jeri Foreman & Ruth Eliza
The story of how One Night String Band came together is worth recounting. Because of gig conflicts, two old-time duos...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
Mambo Mundial
Chilean band Chico Trujillo have been blasting out raw, festive, gig-friendly cumbia for two decades – a significant milestone they've...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Las Fuerzas Almadas
Dat Garcia is the first solo female artist on Buenos Aires’ ZZK Records, which has spearheaded a neo-electro-folk scene in...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022
Agüeros
One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
O Paraíso
Bahian artist Lucas Santtana read David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, yet remains largely upbeat. Paradise is potentially here and now,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2023
Amaratch Musica
EthioSonic is the sister series to Ethiopiques, documenting modern Ethiopian influenced sounds from around the globe, no matter whether it’s...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Apr/May/2013
Assume Crash Position
Five years after Konono No 1's astonishing debut, the feral sound of their junkyard sonics and distorted, hypnotic grooves sounds...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2010
Cosmic Language
The fusion of jazz and Indian classical music has become so commonplace as to be almost passé, but saxophonist Nat...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2018
El Callegüeso y su Mala Maña
Cali is known as the home of salsa in Colombia, a reputation based on the way they dance it, rather...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2017
