Reviews
¡Salsa! Mi Hermana
When this album was released in 1968, salsa was the soundtrack of a new Latin consciousness. If New York was...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Marimba del Pacífico
Spanish-speaking South America's African music remains a largely untold story. For more than two centuries the culture of those descended...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
Bumblin’ Creed
Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland
Padang Food Tigers operate a craft industry in ambient sound-worlds. Bumblin’ Creed is the third full album to emerge from...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2016
Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia
Strictly speaking, Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but compiler Tatiana Rucinska has opted here to defer to common...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2011
God’s Plenty
Ambient duo Padang Food Tigers do not equip listeners with a map to navigate their signature fusion of found sound,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/February/2022
Delta Bound
‘In New Orleans,’ Holly Devon’s liner notes suggest, ‘memories linger in the humid air.’ Under the aegis of guitarist and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2022
New York Boogaloo
Boogaloo is the infectious Latin-soul dance craze of the late 60s and early 70s that brought the world ‘I Like...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2015
Mitha Bol: Rajasthan Field Recordings Vol 1
These wonderful discs make up two volumes of field recordings made in the Thar desert in Rajasthan, with both albums...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Live at the Grand Pavilion
The Welsh six-piece Mabon may not be well known on the English side of the border. It’s as if there’s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Helsinki: Shangri-La
When was the last time you heard Finnish hip-hop? Been a while? Well, on the evidence of Paleface, you should...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
