Reviews
Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida
The tireless and protean Eblis Álvarez is back in another form. The Meridian Brothers artist hitches up with Mario Galeano...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2025
Mirante
Inspired by his visits to Brazil, Canadian composer and instrumentalist Storring applies contemporary composition techniques to convey the impressions which...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2025
Magnífico Boogaloo
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Another fine compilation to complement Vampisoul’s cumbia collections, Magnífico Boogaloo features a Peruvian take on a genre tailor-made for dancers....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2025
Riζituals: Inspired by Cretan Vocal Traditions
This is an intriguing album, reworking the rizitika vocal tradition of Crete for female voices and a backing of Greek...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2025
Drogi
Galicia, once a vast multicultural province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire stretching from Kraków to Lviv, was a meeting point of...
Reviewed by Mateusz Dobrowolski in issue: May/2025
Senu Mi Venu Mi
Described as “Croatian traditional singing with modern musical sound” and “fresh interpretations of Croatian musical heritage”, this is an album...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2025
Live in the Khaleej!
Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi & Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill
This project is inspired by Al-Mulaifi’s grandfather, one of the last of a generation of Kuwaiti master pearl divers, and...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: May/2025
Abundância
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of her career, Portuguese singer Maria João is releasing one of her boldest records to...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2025
The Edinburgh Rollick
NYC-based Ruckus – described as “the world’s only period-instrument rock band” – have joined forces with violinist, composer and musicologist...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2025
Ponda
With Ponda, Cameroonian pianist and singer Patrick Bebey delivers a record that seamlessly fuses jazz, African tradition and Western folk...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: February/March/2025
