Reviews

A Vontade Superstar

Bruno Morais

The Sao Paulo music scene is currently thriving, with artists such as Criolo, Tulipa and Céu getting international releases and...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Pieds Nus

Soadan

Grégory Audrain, Jean-Marie Lemasson and Armel Goupil are the three multi-instrumentalists that make up French fusion group Soadan. After spending...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: July/2022

Sonho Real

Flavia Coelho

It's ten years since Flavia Coelho moved from her native Brazil to Paris, where she created a reggae-tinged mixture she...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Edgelarks

Edgelarks

In the last issue I reviewed Shake the Chains – an album that resulted from a protest-song project conceived by...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2017

Tradition 2.1

Korrontzi

Embedded in ‘Iskitzeko Aldian’, the track right at the heart of this album, is part of a radio broadcast from...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015

Go Slow to Lagos

Gangbé Brass Band

As the album's title suggests, there's a marked Nigerian Afrobeat feel to this Benin crew's latest, as well as a...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2015

Window to the World

Clarice Assad

If anyone should record this ‘Tribute to Milton Nascimento’, then maybe it's this Grammy-nominated singer-pianist. ‘I was born into the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2022

Ođđa áigodat

Solju

Solju is the name of a new project from the Finnish Sámi joiker Ulla Pirttijärvi and her daughter, Hilda Länsman....

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Hauptbahnhof

Sväng

If you've missed out on the past 14 years of Sväng, this would be a good moment to play catch...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2017

Testvériség (Brotherhood)

Cimbalom Brothers

Slightly confusingly, the two Hungarian cimbalom players in this quartet are not brothers – I suspect one cimbalom player is...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2019