Reviews
Direct-to-Disc Sessions
The demand for albums that capture live performance has long been omnipresent, but the clamour has intensified in the digital...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2020
Det Var en Lørdagsafen
Saturday night's alright for, well, in this case, singing! Firo's new release translates as ‘Once on a Saturday Night’ and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2020
Seljord anno 1935
When fiddler and writer Per Anders Buen Garnås, son of the famous singer Agnes Buen Garnås, added to his already...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2012
After a Thousand Years
Two years ago, Brooklyn-born musician producer Jneiro Jarel had virtually completed this album, while he was living in Costa Rica....
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2020
Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys
The idea was both unexpected and charming: plunder the rich store of mariners’ melodies, real and mock shanties and pirates’...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2013
Emakhosini
The latest album from BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness), Emakhosini, takes the listener on a journey that masterfully embodies the...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: May/2018
Anba Tonèl
The Montréal percussionist Daniel Bellegarde is devoted to old-time Caribbean ballroom music, in which Africa met Europe in the Creole...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2018
Nayda!
Nayda, or ‘waking up,’ was the word given to the alternative music scene 2000s in the wake of the Arab...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Salsa Explosion: The Salsa Revolution 1969-1984
There are so many Latin compilations available these days that it almost warrants a separate tab on confused.com. But never...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
