Reviews

Até ao Fim

Katia Guerreiro

Até ao Fim marks a turning point in Guerreiro's career. But fear not: she's not quit fado. She's not exactly...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2015

Gisela João

Gisela João

There is an infallible method to tell apart a remarkable singer from a merely very good one. Let's call it...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2015

King'n'Doom

King'n'Doom

The core of King'n'Doom is Czech production and multi-instrumentalist duo Pavel Šmíd and Martin Piro, but the real heart of...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2020

A Assembleia Extraordinária

Rod Krieger

Rock gaúcho, rock from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, always had a penchant for the music of the British invasion....

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: February/March/2025

INTEIRA

Nina Maia

Inteira (meaning whole) was originally released last year on the Seloki label in Brazil, an indie with a terrifically varied...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: October/2025

Antahkarana

The Three Seas

Titled after a word meaning “inner instrument” in Sanskrit, the new album by Bengali-Australian fusion group The Three Seas is...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2026

Estrela Acesa

Sessa

Estrela Acesa (Burning Star), is Sessa’s second full-length project and the first album out on Mexican Summer. The São Paulo-born...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: August/September/2022

Benji & Rita

Benji & Rita

Benji Kaplan and Rita Figueiredo's first album as a duo is a curious, avant-garde mish-mash. For the most part, the...

Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: July/2019

From Kolkata

Tita Nzebi

For an album with so much variation between and within tracks, the overall cohesion Tita Nzebi achieves in this release...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: November/2019

Douz

Ti’Kaniki

Ti’Kaniki is a group of eight young singers and percussionists from Lyon in France who share a love for maloya,...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: June/2022