Reviews
En Vivo en el Norte: In Concert
Fifteen years have flown by since Scottish musician Toby Shippey and a group of Edinburgh-based musician friends began fusing Latin...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: July/2010
Projection One
The term ‘rock’ was so out of favour at the time of the 1980s world music boom, it's taken until...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Apr/May/2012
From Istanbul to Ceuta with a Smile
This album would be great to listen to in a battered, grand old taxi speeding along some dusty road in...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2013
O Fado em Nós
For quite some time, it looked like Pedro Moutinho would never live up to the rather unfair job of stepping...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
From Stage to Stage
If Irish music was to be equated to the Premier League, then Dervish would be West Bromwich Albion – sometimes...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
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
Good Times of Old England
Span are still a touring and recording band, like their 70s folk-rock compatriots Fairport, and a good portion of their...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Cumbia Cumbia
This album invites the question: do we need to recycle the already recycled? The tip-top material here of ever-popular cumbia...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2012
