Reviews
Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor
Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor
Guyana-born dub master Mad Professor certainly gets around. The list of international collaborators he has worked with is pretty exhaustive,...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2012
The Rough Guide to Samba
In this latest incarnation of The Rough Guide to Samba, compiler John Armstrong works from a generous definition of Brazil's...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2013
Inspiration Information 4: Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen
Don’t mistake the superlatives that follow for unwarranted hype. If you don’t have this album at home to take you...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Un Éloge d’Oblique: Confluence #1.2.3
Constantly exploring and expanding the boundaries of her instrument, French kaval player Isabelle Courroy presents here a three-part album (which...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: February/March/2025
Ginga: The Sound of Brazilian Football
Ginga is a kind of football-specific Brazilian equivalent of ‘mojo,’ which the national team seem to have lost during the...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Talé
Baaba Maal did it with 2009's Television. Amadou & Mariam followed last year with Folila. Now Salif Keita has joined...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013
Por Meu Cante
Por Meu Cante was originally released in 2004 and it’s the second of Antonio Zambujo’s albums. Although his singing only...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Upside Down
Mauricio Maestro & Nana Vasconcelos
Touted as an epistle from a ‘ time when people dared to make liberated records.’ this collaboration between two Brazilian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2012
Excavated Shellac: Voices
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
The globe is completely open for this deep excavation, the latest in Dust-to-Digital’s Jonathan Ward-assembled series. From Mongolia to Morocco,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2026
