Reviews
Calypso Rose Forever
The return to the spotlight in 2016 of the veteran Calypso Rose, half-a-century after she was first crowned Trinidad’s carnival...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
12 Inches of Dub
During the late 1970s, the Jamaican music scene was completely reconfigured when aspiring producer Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes began working with...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: March/2020
Argentum
Many books and articles have been written about the tortuous relationship between Buenos Aires and its rural hinterland. US-based but...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2016
Antique Beats
This is a deft mash-up of musical styles shot with energy; the band's multifarious influences show in their fresh use...
Reviewed by Wendy Rosie Scott in issue: November/2018
Goodness
Since quitting legendary reggae outfit The Gladiators in 1987, Clinton Fearon hasn’t changed much. Instead, his Seattle-based Boogie Brown Band...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2014
Topspin
Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2018
Rooftop Sessions
The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
On & Between: New Music for Pipa & Western Ensembles
This suite of pieces by New York-based pianist and composer Zhen Chen is a musical tribute to Chinese immigrants to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Mai
The Aberystwyth singer-songwriter released her debut, Week of Pines, back in 2013, and it won her the Welsh Music Prize...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2020
