Reviews

Live in Berlin

Baden Powell

Though far less well-known than João Gilberto or Tom Jobim outside Brazil, Baden Powell was one of that select group...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: April/2016

Nostalgique Porto Rico: Plenas, Guarachas, Boléros et Chansons Jibaras 1940-1960

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Long before Ricky Martin and Daddy Yankee seduced the diaspora with their very different hybrid pop rhythms, the island of...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2019

Conscription

The Sexican

The deranged frontman known only as Mike H led his motley Danish crew The Sexican across their debut album The...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2013

Havili

Te Vaka

The seventh album from veteran Pan¬Pacific group Te Vaka treads a similar path to their previous recordings – and that’s...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Trois

Acid Arab

There's an essential difference between listening to Rachid Taha or Khaled and Acid Arab. These ten tracks are not songs...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: June/2023

BEATrio

Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez

In 2024, after a 12-show run at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, gazillion-time Grammy-winning, globe-trotting, banjo maestro Béla Fleck,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025

Inside Llewyn Davis

VARIOUS ARTISTS

If there is a precedent for promoting a soundtrack in a similar way to the campaign for the forthcoming movie...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Sabîl

Ahmad Al Khatib & Youssef Hbeisch

Time was when Palestinian musicians only got an airing if they snuck in on the dull-but-politically-worthy ticket. How things have...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2012

In the Furrows of Common Place

Jim Ghedi

Drawing on the poetry of John Clare, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' The Lost Words and South Yorkshire writer Barry...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2021

Taisa

Mec Yek

Mec Yek is the meeting of Slovakian Roma sisters, Katia and Milka Pohlodkova, with the Belgian ‘Euro-roots outfit’ Jaune Toujours....

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022