Reviews
Braziliance!
‘First came Gilberto, then Jobim, and now MARCOS VALLE BRAZILIANCE!’ runs the breathless blurb on the original sleeve of this...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: April/2020
We be All Africans
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
African-American jazz musicians were undoubtedly the pioneers of what's become known as world music. In the 1950s, Dizzy Gillespie's music...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016
Wait For Me
The vinyl LP age may have been a long time ago now, but that doesn't alter the fact that 42...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2012
Live at the Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill
This first live album from the Bristol trio of Alex Vann, Pete Judge and Paul Bradley is also a recording...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2017
Minka
The Eva Quartet are undoubtedly the finest current exponents of small group vocal music by Bulgarian composers and arrangers, rooted...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Devil & the Diamond
Back with a pared-down sound and a Buddhist-inspired spiritual bent, Brooklyn fusionists Matuto have ditched the surf guitar that marked...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2013
Working River: Songs and Music of the Thames
This collection of 21 songs celebrating the lives of working people on the Thames is backed by the General Federation...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2021
Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay
Uruguay is to Argentina as Wales is to England: smaller, saner, greener, less populated, less hurried and under-celebrated. The north...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
Morir Cantando
At 25 minutes, this album may be somewhat sparse, but the Afro-Colombian music within is riveting, intense and sure to...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2025
