Reviews
Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia
One of the oddities of Brazilian music is the lack of strong, assertive male vocals: the kind of voices that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Sem Nostalgia
Brazilian Lucas Santtana's first UK release contains a mixture of hyperactive mash-ups, soothing melodies and funky guitar workouts, all initially...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Orchestra Popolare Campana
Ever since Orchestra della Notte della Taranta took the stage at the massively well-attended Melpignano folklore night, and the formation...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2013
In the Key of Joy
Parental guidance: multitude of guest artists. The rapper Common, for example, (dis)graces the opening track on the venerable Mr Mendes'...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020
The Faster it Goes
Within the first few bars of ‘Tilt-a-Whirl’, the opening track of The Railsplitters’ second album, you hear pitch-perfect harmony singing,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Ali & Toumani
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré's 2005 Grammy-winning collaboration In the Heart of the Moon was about as flawless a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2010
New Voices
One of the finest of Finnish accordionists, Markku Lepistö plays with all the elegance and grace of a chamber musician...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Ver Tente
The fourth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Maria Rita Stumpf, Ver Tente, brings together her four decades of musical output. After...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: October/2022
Afro-Beat Airways
For this eighth release on his excellent Analog Africa imprint, Samy Ben Redjeb gets stuck in to Dick Essilfie-Bondzie’s Essiebons...
Reviewed by Quinton Scott in issue: October/2010
