Reviews
De Mar y Río
How rough and ready do you want your roots music? From a small town on the Pacific coast of Colombia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2019
Ancoradouro
It is no minor achievement to have secured the blessing of Fausto Bordalo Dias. He is a key figure in...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2016
Creole Orchestra
Big band music in the 21st century can often feel quite dated, so it's refreshing to hear an album such...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: November/2024
I Can Feel My Dreams
Leipzig-based saxophonist, composer and producer Damian Dalla Torre has been on the improvisation/experimental music scene for some time, working with...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: August/2024
I’m Jimmy Reed
It’s routinely hailed as the first great blues album but, as was the case with most bluesmen of his generation,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2025
Nijerusalem
Like the Vangelis of West Africa, Mamman Sani began recording his electronic keyboard music in the late 1970s and is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2024
Sé Nam
The party never stops on Sé Nam, an album designed to sweat to. While there's an edge to tracks like...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: September/2025
sMiLes
A creative individualist through and through, Canadian-Haitian saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Jowee Omicil has assembled another repertoire rich in ideas and...
Reviewed by Christina M. Bauer in issue: January/2026
Ballad Lines
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
That odd beast – a folk concept album – takes shape in Ballad Lines, a new Scottish folk musical by...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2025
Songs from Aulejas
This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
