Reviews
Can You Feel It?
Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021
The Nile Project: Aswan
In January earlier this year 18 musicians from five countries along the Nile came together in an unprecedented collaboration. This...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Music of Central Asia Vol Seven: In the Shrine of the Heart
With its seventh volume, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture series focuses for the first time on Uzbekistan and traditional...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
Ronald Mesquita
Like many Brazilian albums of this generation, it's evident that this self-titled release by Brazilian drummer Ronald Mesquita relies on...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: May/2019
Contracorriente
Contracorriente, the third album from El Balcón, is alive with the unique vibrancy and musical playfulness of son jarocho, traditional...
Reviewed by Kary Stewart in issue: November/2021
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Core [Coração]
There is such an alluring charm to the words Chico Buarque pens for his own songs that it is almost...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2017
Color de Trópico Vol 2
For a short album, this packs a mighty punch. Variously a crate digger’s delight, an ode to the hopes of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2021
Öz/Essence
Coşkun Karademir's two previous albums in collaboration with international artists were both received with some critical acclaim. This is the...
Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: May/2019
Magic Fire
Unlike previous Stray Birds recordings, Magic Fire is mostly devoid of anything especially magical or combustible. Produced – or, more...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2016
