Reviews
Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87
By the late 70s Peruvian cumbia had become synonymous with neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Lima populated by internal migrants...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: May/2022
Psychedelic Trance Tarantella
Kalàscima come from Salento, at the southern end of Italy, which boasts an explosive musical culture. The cover of this...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2016
Safe Passage
Fresh out of touring as bandleader for Pimps of Joytime, and a collaboration with CedricBurnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J explores instrumental...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: January/2021
Landskein
Lauren MacColl is one of Scotland’s finest fiddlers. Her latest album’s title, Landskein, loosely means ‘Thread’ and it is in...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2020
Cubafonía
This second album by Havana-born singer Daymé Arocena partly came about via ‘a platform for contemporary Cuban creativity driven by...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2017
Plaza Francia Orchestra
While they were, respectively, the keyboardist/programmer and guitarist of Gotan Project, Swiss-raised Christoph H Müller and Argentinian Eduardo Makaroff helped...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2018
D’Amore e di Altre Cose Irreversibili
This is a mature debut from the singer Floriana Cangiano, who draws on her Italian roots and combines Mediterranean folk...
Reviewed by Valentina Monsurrò in issue: March/2015
Creole Sounds from the Indian Ocean
The volcanic archipelago of the Mascarenes in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar includes La Réunion, Mauritius and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2021
Portrait
Well established and widely respected in her native Argentina, María Volonté is largely unknown in Europe. This, her European debut,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2011
