Reviews
Ainda Há Tempo
Criolo had already been rapping at events around São Paulo for many years before he released his debut, Ainda Há...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017
Sheikhs Shikhats & B’net Chaabi
Sheikhs Shikhats & B’net Chaabi
This sprawling 18-piece Belgian ensemble combines Sheikhs Shikhats and B’net Chaabi, the former a horn-dominated band fronted by a female...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2023
Hjeltamôs
Per Gudmundson & Bengan Janson
A crackling fire under a summer sky, dried flowers on a windowsill, a wistful smile and the coolness of grass...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2018
Memory Islands
Ellie Wilson is an explorer of the contemporary classical, folk and electronica worlds, and her new album, Memory Islands, documents...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: March/2024
Café Kállai
Erno Kállai Kiss Jr & His Gypsy Band | Tcha Limberger's Budapest Gypsy Orchestra
You wait for ages, and then two discs of sumptuous Hungarian Gypsy music come along at once. Both of these...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2015
Introducing… Rubén González
Recorded in two days in Havana in 1996 at the end of the Buena Vista Social Club sessions, the debut...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2017
God is Not a Terrorist
Produced by Ian Brennan, the US music enthusiast whose wanderings have brought us the Malawi Mouse Boys and other treasures,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
Color de Trópico
The mining of South America's lost music archives continues apace, seemingly unimpeded by anything new and exciting. This vinyl, compiled...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2021
Djaale
Born in France, with a Cameroonian background, singer Ekoumé was a member of saxophonist Manu Dibango's band for eight years....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2016
Pura Vida (Banda Sonora)
Mísia was integral to the new wave of fadistas in the 1990s, helping to revitalise the genre with new influences,...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: December/2019
