Reviews
Viento y Tiempo: Live at Blue Note Tokyo
Aymée Nuviola | Gonzalo Rubalcaba
In August 2019 the award-winning Cuban artists Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Aymée Nuviola teamed up to play six sold-out nights at...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2020
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Tibet: Lam la Che (On the Road)
The fragmentation of Tibetan culture over the last half-century has led, for better or worse, to an astounding variety of...
Reviewed by Tom Hamilton in issue: July/2014
Metisse Maloya
The island of La Réunion is a French territory located in the Indian Ocean, lying to the east of Madagascar,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2015
Del Diablo y del Angel
Two of Astor Piazzolla’s great suites – Angels’ and ‘Devils’ – evolved ove r many years and, as a consequ–...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Rios de Norte y Sur
Radio Jarocho & Zenen Zeferino
Rios de Norte y Sur (Rivers from North and South) is the second album from New York City's Radio Jarocho...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2018
Mujeres de Arena y Otras Historias
Amilcar Soto Rodriguez, Susana Baca & I Solisti Veneti
Amilcar Soto Rodriguez grew up as part of a musical family in Villa El Salvador on the Peruvian coast, a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021
Tin Can Trust
Arising out of east Los Angeles, Los Lobos first came together to play Mexican corridos (narrative ballads sung in Spanish),...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
Santiago de Cuba: La Reina del ‘Son’
Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city on the gorgeous, beleaguered Caribbean island. The capital of the Santiago de...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013
Los Duendes de la Marimba
This album was recorded in the house of the Torres family (keepers of the Torres dynasty, masters of Colombia’s Pacific...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2020
Here and There
Since its (then) undiscovered flowering in the 1970s, Ethio-jazz has spread around the musical world like an exotic plant. Before...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022
