Reviews
El Violento
‘El Violento’? Julio Ernesto Estrada, aka Fruko, who ran for Colombia’s senate in 2013? One hopes not. The veteran of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/February/2024
The Pendulum Swing
Katherine Priddy’s sophomore set is an intimate, emotive, interconnected album of tableaux that encompasses the past, and past loves, and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2024
I am Kurdish
Sometimes moments of grace spring from conflict in a way that feels like the premise for a film or a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2024
9 Deadly Sins For Tamada
One could hardly accuse Georgian singer-songwriter Tamada of lacking in ambition on this, his second album, which he organises around...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: November/2024
Gabriele Poso presents Ritmo Italiano: ‘Unspoken Sounds of Italian Tamburo’
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
One of Mr Bongo's stocks-in-trade is unusual compilations, and this one is certainly out of the ordinary. The Sardinian compiler,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2025
KROK
Belarusian group СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) have released an album that, reflecting their in-transit status, is tricky to place geographically. After relocating...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: January/2026
Sunrise To Sunset
Known as Israel’s first female hang drum (aka handpan) artist, Meyuhas is a percussionist, composer and educator who has spent...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2026
Monk Con Clave
On his 1989 Afro-Latin tribute album to jazz giant Thelonious Monk, Rumba para Monk, trumpeter Jerry Gonzáles played it largely...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2026
Dualismo Mágico
It is a kind of magic. The voices of twin sisters Valentina and Juanita Áñez bring new harmonic projections –...
Reviewed by Humphrey Inzillo in issue: July/2026
