Reviews
El Terreno
Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024
Le QuecumBar Live in London
Patrick Saussois & Daniel John Martin
LeQuecumBar is the south-west London pub devoted to Gypsy jazz à la Django Reinhardt and his followers. Offering both major...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2010
Try and Love
Imagine Lagos, Nigeria in 1972, when Fela Kuti was flying high with recordings like ‘Shakara’ and ‘Roforofo Fight’, jùjú music...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2023
Jumbie in the Jukebox
‘I would choose to live back when calypso brought the news’, sings Drew Gonsalves in the opening seconds of Jumbie...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2013
Imam Baildi
This is a great album, with a great idea behind it: take recordings of Greek popular songs of the 40s...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2010
Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia
One of the oddities of Brazilian music is the lack of strong, assertive male vocals: the kind of voices that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Wild Tune Stray Rhythm
Song Yuzhe comes from north-east China and he is the composer of this dynamic set of songs and instrumentals. On...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2013
La Negra: The Definitive Collection
With neither ‘Gracias a la Vida’ nor ‘Maria Maria’ on it, this double album is not quite the definitive collection...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
