Reviews
Calles del Olvido
Alejandro Valdés grew up in the province of Camagüey in central Cuba, playing percussion and bass before picking up guitar...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021
Granada 1013-1502
Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya
On his new theme album, named after Granada – the city that epitomised Muslim rule in Spain and also witnessed...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2016
Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa
Sweet as Broken Dates is a collection of Somali-language pop recorded in Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti from the 1960s right...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2017
Oficina Itinerante
Jean-Luc Thomas is a Breton flute player who describes himself as ‘musician and traveller’; previous collaborations have brought him together...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
Through the Eyes of the Sun
Bulgarian singer Gergana Dimitrova will be familiar to many as a member of the women’s vocal ensemble, the Eva Quartet....
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2014
Captain Rugged
Captain Rugged purports to be the sound of a man on a mission, with Nigerian Afro-rock musician Keziah Jones adopting...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2014
La Dôtu Lado
Right from the melancholic opening chords of a pair of acoustic guitars, you know you're in for a treat. Coladera...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2019
Songs from the River Wind
Singer-songwriter and activist Eliza Gilkyson follows up her politically charged 2020 release titled, poignantly enough, 2020, with a collection of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2022
