Reviews
El Changüí Majadero
Changüí music hails from the recently hurricane-ravaged area of Baracoa in Cuba's easterly Guantanamo province: it is a graceful, Caribbean-soaked...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Salsa de la Bahia: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz
In this double-disc third volume of the Salsa de la Bahia series, documentary-maker and timbales-player Rita Hargreaves highlights the contributions...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2025
Bread and Jam
If your taste leans toward finely cra.ed, casually philosophical, quirkily upbeat acoustic roots music with a dash of global funk,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020
Ecorcha/Taillée
La Tène's latest album, Ecorcha/Taillée, is a two-track journey into the depths of the experimental avant-garde. The French-Swiss trio are...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2023
Maestros del Joropo Oriental: ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela!
Venezuela is more than Hugo Chavez, the Bolivarian revolution, Gustavo Dudamel and the Orchestra Simon Bolivar. Yet all have contributed...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2010
Gharnata
Gharnata takes its name from the Arabic for Granada, capital city of flamenco. Singer Luis de la Carrasca has long...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2019
Alrededor de la Húmisha: La Música de los Conjuntos Típicos Amazónicos de Perú
From the mid-1960s, musicians in Peru’s Amazon region began to record the hybrid folk styles that had evolved over five...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
GALW
You've heard freeform jazz. What about freeform, avant-garde, New Age, Welsh folk music? This debut from the duo Sianed Jones and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
Univers-Île
One of the electronic music wizards of the southern hemisphere, Jeremy Labelle, has released Univers-Île, his second album, which is...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: November/2017
Voun
Zanmari Baré is an exceptionally talented musician. He sings in Creole, with a high, yearning voice that is a little...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2018
