Reviews
Travesuras
Rock, electronica, Cuban rhythms, Middle Eastern music and Gregorian chant are among the passions of classically trained Spanish pianist Daniel...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019
Iquitos – Amazonía – Perú
Through the 1970s Raul Llerena (aka Ranil) took his band up and down the Amazon from their base in Iquitos,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2020
Cold Light
The Bideford-based folk duo's last album celebrated Devonian postman poet Edward Capern, but with Cold Light the two fiddle players,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2020
Kamale Blues
That Harouna Samaké has been Salif Keita's kamalengoni player for the past 17 years tells you all you need to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018
Perotá Chingó
Every summer, thousands of Argentinian 20-something urbanites hit the road in order to discover themselves in Patagonia, Salta, or the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2015
Impredecible
After plugging away through various stylistic incarnations, from the ska of their debut to the guitar-based cumbia of their subsequent...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Alerta Canibal
Founders of Spain's mestizo movement, fusing salsa, rock, ska, funk, cumbia and the rhythms of Afrobeat with the attitude of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2018
CantöRiöndö
The spirit of Genoa resounds through this celebration of the singing circle of trallalero – a form of urban traditional...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
