Reviews
Italie: Polyphonies Vocales de Ligurie
In a north-western corner of Italy, inland from Sanremo and not far from the French border, a cascade of fortified...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Viajando Com O Som
Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa
Widely regarded as Brazil's most preternaturally gifted musician, Hermeto Pascoal has covered an incredible amount of creative ground in his...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2017
Sons da Terra Vol 1
This is a beautiful collection of live performances in the Monasterio de Santa Cristina in the Ribeiro Sacra region of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2017
A Tiempo
Hailing from Triana, Seville's one time Gypsy quartei and home of classic flamenco, Rosario Guerrero Hernández, aka ‘La Tremendita’, has...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2011
La Samba Contemporain: Samba Recordings by CPC UMES, 1998-2007
‘E bom Cantar’ (It’s time? to sing) is just one of 36 versions of contemporary samba on this dedicated compilation...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Habana-Bahia
The cities of Havana and Salvador are widely regarded as epicentres of Afro-Latin musical culture – at the head of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2023
Atlântico
Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021
Los Nostres Vices e Pecats
Els Berros de la Cort are the musical equivalent of a re-enactment group, performing material from the medieval Catalan and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2013
Fiat Lux
Tarta Relena – Barcelona-based singers Helena Ros and Marta Torrella – was born in 2016 out of a project to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022
Qasida
Rosario ‘La Tremendita’ & Mohammad Motamedi
This live CD bears witness to the meeting of Iranian classical singer Mohammad Motamedi and flamenco singer-songwriter Rosario ‘La Tremendita’...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
