Reviews
La Voz Del Mar
Hailing from Guapi on the Pacific Coast, but residing in Cali, Colombia, Xiomara Torres displays both her traditional roots and...
Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: November/2022
Clareia
When Bebel Gilberto released Tanto Tempo in 2000, she almost single-handedly invented electronic bossa nova. Being the daughter of bossa's...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: August/2017
Ondas
French producer Teacher Jekyll's third album is a multi-generational, multicultural affair with an emphasis on traditions from Cape Verde, Brazil,...
Reviewed by Jordan Barnes in issue: June/2018
Room With a View
After six years, Old Blind Dogs are back. Founded by fiddler Jonny Hardie in 1990 while busking in the Highlands,...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Lema Lema
New York-based Eva Salina has grown up surrounded by Balkan music. On Lema Lema she has created an album that...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2016
Frontrunner
Frontrunner is Anglo-Hungarian Rakoczy’s horse-themed debut. From pagan creatures to racehorses, equine figures run through the album, tying together a...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: December/2020
Tango
You may well be apprehensive about hearing this. Israeli singer Yasmin Levy has a dramatic style that really suits the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Beat Down Babylon
Kerrie ‘Junior’ Byles was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1948 and developed into one of reggae’s foremost voices, initially as...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020
Dithis/Duo
Sibling duo Joy and Andrew Dunlop grew up in Connel, Argyll, in the western Highlands, where Joy immersed herself in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2020
Tatavla
Tatavla was a neighbourhood in Istanbul where the Greek-speaking community once performed a great deal of music, especially that of...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2018
