Reviews
Quatro: The Definitive Collection
Four discs from Tito Puente’s time with RCA in the 50s, a bonus disc of outtakes and unreleased tracks, digital...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2013
Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango
It's incredible how the tango has conquered the world – from its origins in Buenos Aires to Paris, Helsinki, Istanbul...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2023
Live in Berlin
Though far less well-known than João Gilberto or Tom Jobim outside Brazil, Baden Powell was one of that select group...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: April/2016
Seedlings All
This is the folk duo's fifth album, their first of all-original songs and, once again, a maturation and development of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
The Adventures of Captain Ward
The Demon Barbers’ live reputation goes before them, cemented by their Best Live Act award at the BBC Radio 2...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010
Songbirds: Albanian Music from 78s 1924-1948
The great dreamer of European unity, Stefan Zweig, speaking of poetics and spiritual power, once wrote that ‘The Skipetares (Albanians)...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2021
Zozodinga
One of the founding fathers of Touareg ishumar music, or desert blues in European marketing-speak, Oumbadougou returns with his first...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s
For anyone interested in Hungarian music, this is a very useful overview of the last 40 years, since the beginning...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
Can't Sit Down
CJ Chenier is the son of the late, great Clifton Chenier, the black Louisiana accordion player whose zydeco recordings on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
