Reviews
Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970
The latest compilation from Seattle-based Sublime Frequencies is a dizzying double whammy of obscurities and information. Documenting the 60s rock...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: June/2013
Garrincha – Estrela Solitária OST
Brazilians have an expansive metaphor for their football team’s enduring 50s icon. Wing legend Manuel Francisco dos Santos, aka Garrincha,...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
The Road is Long: Live at Savoy Theatre
When you have made four attempts at recording a live album in Cotonou, Benin, and each of them fail, what...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2017
Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69)
Encouraged by an Indonesian government keen to engender ideas of national identity in the newly independent country, a raft of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/February/2023
Del Canto Gitano: Music of Ancient Andalusia
The Moorish-occupied Iberian Peninsula, usually referred to as Al-Andalus, is an endless source of fascination. It was a period of...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2021
Frank Y Sus Inquietos
In the clubs of Caracas in the late 1960s, salsa was going off. Or more specifically, a sound that mixed...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2022
The Queen of Salsa
To put together a mere 12 of the Cuban diva’s greatest recordings must be an invidious task. Nevertheless, Craft Latino...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: February/March/2026
Momentos
Dulce Pontes began her musical career in 1991 when, as a shy teenager, she sang for Portugal in the Eurovision...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
