Reviews
Yn Rio
Welsh-Brazilian samba might seem an unlikely musical match; even less so with the addition of the BBC National Orchestra of...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: January/February/2022
Brazil: Samba, Bossa and Beyond!
There is no shortage of Brazilian music compilations out there. So when you put a new one on the market,...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2020
Turquoise
Mohammed Reza Ebrahimi is a virtuoso of the oud and Persian tar, and an instructor at the Music Conservatory of...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: January/2021
Balkantron
Many casual listeners today tend to think any music from Eastern Europe is Balkan – which sees even Gogol Bordello...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Between River and Railway
Dumfries and Galloway have always been a fertile ground for powerful Scottish singers and songwriters and it is clear this...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2016
Dance Moderno
In the early 1960s, before swingers everywhere were listening to the version of ‘The Look of Love’ by Brasil ‘66...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2017
Marni: Music for Slow Television
This is the soundtrack to a fascinating two-and-a-half hour observational documentary that chronicles the painting of a large intricate work,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
The West African Blues Project
The easiest way to describe The West African Blues Project is that it is exactly what it says in its...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Upside Down
Mauricio Maestro & Nana Vasconcelos
Touted as an epistle from a ‘ time when people dared to make liberated records.’ this collaboration between two Brazilian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2012
