Reviews
Cartagena!
Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962-72
Aqui en la costa me vuelve loco’ (Here on the Coast I go Mad). So sings the great band leader...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2011
Bulimundo/Djam Brancu Dja
Most readers will associate Cape Verde with the languid, melancholic mornas made famous by the great singer Cesaria Evora, or...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Corazón y Hueso
When Argentinian rocker Daniel Melingo took a stab at tango in 1998 with songs like ‘Narigón’ and ‘José el Cuchiyero’...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
The Rough Guide to English Folk
This is, in a sense, not one but two Rough Guides. The first is a selection of 17 tracks compiled...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
Sketches of Africa
David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet once speculated on what Beethoven’s works might have sounded like if he’d been able...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Resilience
Musician, humanitarian and photographer Samite has dedicated his career to the exploration of the power of music as a healing...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2018
Masters of Percussion
This is a compilation of 11 percussion tracks, culled from at least five other percussion discs on the ARC Music...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: March/2010
Al-hambra
Ahmed Mukhtar & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde
Baghdad-born Ahmed Mukhtar studied oud and Western percussion in London. On this album, inspired by a visit to Granada’s Alhambra...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
