Reviews
Balkan Express
Following the recent fusion-oriented album Enigma, Danish reedsman Bjonko Stosic and band return with a more traditional take on the...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2023
Early Congo Music 1946-1962: First Rumba, to the Real Rumba
Early Congo Music 1946-1962 has been compiled and annotated by Japanese collector Yoshiki Fukasawa. His unusual sub-title comes from the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2019
10
It's a great back story: five musicians from Colombia and Argentina living illegally in Barcelona meet playing music on the...
Reviewed by Russell Patron in issue: Apr/May/2012
Outros Choros do Brazil
A choro supergroup of sorts, the three members of Aquarela have worked with the likes of Gilberto Gil, Airto Moreira...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2015
The Maniacs
Old English tunes and young English players have been making hay over the past few years with the likes of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2020
The Song of the Banjo
After a six-year hiatus, the banjo-picker, composer, Harvard graduate, former investment banker and record-label founder Alison Brown has released The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
Bleu de Lune
This Franco-Algerian bunch of latter-day troubadours was discovered busking on the streets of Paris. Their live shows are renowned and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2020
Así de Sampling!
It's almost the stuff of fiction: looking for ways to provide music for ill-equipped house parties, six instrumentalists from Havana's...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2017
YO
A visual and aural treat from Havana's proudest son, who lays himself bare on YO (that's ‘I’ in Spanish) with...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2012
