Reviews
Art Populaire
Two members of the prize-winning Québécois vocal group Le Vent du Nord — Nicolas Boulerice and Olivier Demers — are...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: November/2023
Busco Paraíso
We don’t hear enough music from Chile. Many nueva canción singers are dead or retired. Survivors such as Inti-Illimani and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2015
Quema Quema Quema
On their second album – following a subtle, largely-guitar-based debut – this duo from Peru have pumped their songs full...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2015
Camin Sobiran
Listen casually to this latest release from the Pau-based label in South-West France and you might mistake its minimalism for...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021
Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974
Somewhere along the way cumbia has become the term used to describe Latin America’s golden age of tropical, danceable music,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021
Chambacú
Colombian singer Aurita Castillo was just six or seven years old when she recorded two albums for Discos Fuentes in...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Pwnco
Allan yn y Fan, a quintet from Gwent, South Wales, are proud purveyors of twmpath music. A twmpath is a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
Toronto Mambo
Sean Bellaviti & Conjunto Lacalu
Pianist, band leader and principal arranger Sean Bellaviti and long-time collaborator, percussionist Luis Orbegoso, are both leading lights of the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2017
The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan
Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour
The Shaigiya people claim lineage from the Arabian Peninsula but grew as a culture in Nubia. The music of the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
