Reviews

Iroko

Omar Sosa & Tiganá Santana

The Cuban pianist, Omar Sosa, has worked with artists and picked up awards around the world. Here, he partners with...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2024

End of the World Remixes

Elza Soares

Remix albums are notoriously a mixed bag and this one's no different, with a handful of Portuguese and Brazilian remixers,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2017

Gecekondu

Baba Zula

There is something regal in the music of Baba Zula – the elegant, yearning vocals of Elena Hristova, the stately...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2011

Travels

Jake Shimabukuro

Hawaiian-Japanese ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has been taking his humble instrument in new directions for some years. On this latest...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2015

Anchoress

Anna Tam

Where the world of early music meets traditional folk is where you'll find the likes of Wilde Roses and Mediaeval...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2021

Miziki

Dobet Gnahoré

Eight years after receiving a Grammy Award for her song ‘Palea’, the African singer-songwriter Dobet Gnahoré has released her fifth...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: June/2018

Far From Home

Calypso Rose

From the opening, jump-up moments of ‘Abatina’, a crisp, smart updating of a famous traditional rhythm, ‘Kalenda March’, it is...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Blikkspor

Erlend Apneseth

Old Norwegian tradition is exquisitely embodied in the playing of this young virtuoso Hardanger fiddler, who has garnered a pair...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Curyman

Rogê

A cursory listen to these 11 tracks suggests a lost classic from the golden age of Música Popular Brasileira. But...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023

Festa!

Andrew Finn Magill

North Carolinian Andrew Finn Magill is an incredibly polished and virtuosic violinist who has turned his bow to many genres...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sep/2021