Reviews
#NuNairobi
Not just the banner for a new wave of artists, creatives and entrepreneurs that are proud to call the Kenyan...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2019
Temperamento: Traditional Songs from Spain
Vigüela is a Toledo-based outfit of singers, guitarists and players of castanets, tambourines, shearing scissors, cowbells, sieves, the lute-like bandurria,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Merengue Loco Out of This World Cha Cha
Would-be lawyer Gilberto Calderón broke his leg playing stickball in Spanish Harlem, took up the congas, became Joe Cuba. His...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2016
LIVE – Olympiahalle München
LaBrassBanda hail from Bavaria, and this homecoming concert found them playing to 12,000 fans. You read that correctly: not 1,200...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Escapology
As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Mud Doll
Single-handedly produced, recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by British talent Niraj Chag, this is ambitiously lofty (if occasionally bombastic) cinematic...
Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: November/2015
Saudade, Colour of Love
Maria Mendes is a Portuguese jazz singer that has developed her career in The Netherlands for the last 15 years....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023
Shivelight
‘Shivelight’ is the light that dances and dapples through a canopy of trees; something that captures the essence of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018
Orfeo
Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party
The title-track of Orfeo is a version of the Orpheus and Eurydice story dating from the 13th century, via a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
