Reviews
Asimétrico
It’s a pity the name ‘trance’ has already been taken for a music genre, as it is the perfect descriptor...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021
Brazilian Beats 7
One of the great things about the Brazilian Beats series is that it has precious few restraints to its remit....
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Kalipè
Now, more than ever, musicians don't have to leave the privacy of their homes to cut an album. They hook...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: June/2021
Sand Enigma
Sun Ra Arkestra colliding with Arabic tropes and urban Cairo grit, Land of Kush almost literally smashes itself onto the...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2020
Águia Não Come Mosca
The second album from the Brazilian funk trio Azymuth, now reissued by Mr Bongo, was originally recorded in 1977 and traverses...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: June/2019
Faerie Fire Dances
Marc Block has been on the folk scene since the mid-1980s, a self-described ‘rootsy Radical Faerie singer of original and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
Ayú
Making music with their bodies is ‘what really matters,’ assert this mixed-gender 15-strong collective from São Paulo. While there are...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Sangeet
Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Tanmoy Bose
Sudeshna Bhattacharya, who has been a lecturer in International Management and also teaches Indian classical music at the Norwegian Academy...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2020
