Reviews
Too Slow to Disco Brasil
‘Um, dois, um-dois-três…’ and then a horn section blasts us straight to the land of Earth Wind & Fire. This...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2018
Weave
Jaywalkers are a young trio from Rochdale and Cheshire, not hitherto known for being crucibles of bluegrass music. Jay Bradberry...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2015
Tribute to Legends: Ghulam Ali
This disc is, theoretically at least, a homage to the ghazal legend Ghulam Ali as imagined by Pakistani superstar Shafqat...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2023
Encores
How the mighty fall. Charles Aznavour is one of the last remaining French icons from an era where only the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2015
Delta Estácio Blues
Best known as Metá Metá’s vocalist, Marçal spent four years making this album, a lengthy process in which co-producer Kiko Dinucci...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2022
Kutu Prieta Pa Saranguia
The resurgent interest in Afro-Colombian music continues with this album by Son Palenque, who, in the 1980s, helped popularise the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2018
Lanbousir
Lanbousir (L’Emb-ouchure) is Christine Salem’s fourth album of studio-recorded compositions in the traditional maloya style, for voice and percussion ensemble....
Reviewed by Paddy Bush in issue: Apr/May/2011
Sonando Ya
The Sierra Maestra, the mountainous region where the leading lights of the 1959 Cuban revolution hid out, is intimately associated...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Fontana Rosa
Multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis returns with an all-star Celtic/Latin line-up featuring Venezuelan percussionist Baldo Verdú, American drummer Shawn Lee, the Isle...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2025
Leave Your Sleep
The former 10,000 Maniacs singer signed to Nonesuch last year, and her first album in seven years is an ambitious,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
