Reviews
Rio Bossa
Even if you weren’t all Rio’d-out after the wall-to-wall Olympics coverage, you’d probably need another bossa nova compilation about as...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2016
Quesaco?
Paris Combo are an iconic Parisian band, carried by the voice and the twinkling presence of Bénédicte Grimault, aka Belle...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: August/September/2022
Raizes
As one of the UK’s most prolific Brazilian musicians, the percussionist Adriano Adewale has amassed an impressive list of credits...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014
Estación Edén: Guitar Works from Uruguay II
While tango jostles with rock nacional and popular dance rhythms like cumbia in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, once you escape...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2016
Lift Up!
Mighty Soul Brass Band, are on first listen, another band in the great New Orleans marching band tradition. Yet a...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Apr/May/2015
Hatching Hares
A one-time member of early music-cum-folk ensembles Wilde Roses and the Mediaeval Baebes, Tam is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist with a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2022
North Star
US-born singer-songwriter Kyle Carey has a pleasing voice, which she wields with deft assuredness and gentle charm. Her music, a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2015
Son Verdad
Xiomara Fortuna – attributed with founding the feminist movement in the Dominican Republic, an ‘out’ lesbian and a defender of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: May/2019
Mechanical Monster
With lots of funk and zing to move all butts to the floor, the Monster Ceilidh Band remind us that...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Jazz Tango
A member of Astor Piazzolla's last quintet, Buenos Aires-born pianist Pablo Ziegler shared the innovator's liking for both classical and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
