Reviews
Incidents & Accidents
The best tracks on British singer and banjo player Dan Walsh's previous album, The Same but Different, were its solo...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015
Clandestino
Starting with true Cuban son flavours on ‘A Mí Me Gusta Compay’ before settling into the nueva trova sounds that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2012
Whorls
Jeremy Kittel's last album, Chasing Sparks, is one of the most perfect fiddle albums you could ever hope to hear....
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: November/2018
Segunda Vez
A prolific mandolin virtuoso, Mike Marshall juggles genres like other musicians juggle day jobs. Segunda Vez is basically the second...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Maasai Footsteps
Anuang'a Fernando & Maasai Vocals
Anuang'a Fernando is a Kenyan dancer, choreographer, producer and music director who specialises in promoting and updating the traditional dances...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2021
Failde Con Tumbao
Cuban bandleader and flautist Ethiel Failde is the great-great nephew of Miguel Failde, the Matanzas composer who in the late...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2020
Vida, Pasión y Tango
When José Libertella died in December 2004, it seemed inevitable that Argentina’s best-known post-Piazzolla orchestra would have to accept its...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2011
Asimétrico
It’s a pity the name ‘trance’ has already been taken for a music genre, as it is the perfect descriptor...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021
El Baile de las Horas
Marina Abad was the powerful, husky-voiced fulcrum of flamenco, hip-hop, Latin fusioneers Ojos de Brujo until they disbanded in 2011....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2014
