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Review of Ritual Sonoro

Ritual Sonoro

Amparo Sánchez

Mamita Records

Rating: ★★★★

How far can you fuse without creating the musical equivalent of brown plasticine? Andalusian singer-songwriter and musician Amparo Sánchez (aka...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2025

Review of Rhythm & Jews Revisited

Rhythm & Jews Revisited

The Klezmatics

Piranha

Rating: ★★★★★

New York klezmer band The Klezmatics are celebrating their 40th anniversary and that includes a (first-time) vinyl release of absolutely...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/2026

Review of Modal Tapestry

Modal Tapestry

Ken Zuckerman & Friends

Living Music Traditions LMTCD3009

Rating: ★★

This disc is more in the nature of jazz-influenced mood music than anything else, and a long way from the...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2010

Review of Deli

Deli

Victor Démé

Naïve Records NV821011

Rating: ★★★

This second album fro m Burkinabé guitarist Victor Démé is a brave and experimental release from a man who went...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2010

Review of Transatlântikèr

Transatlântikèr

Trio Bacana

Klam Records

Rating: ★★★

Kèr, meaning ‘heart’ in Réunionese Creole and ‘village’ or ‘home’ in Breton, leaves the translation of Transatlântikèr up to some...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: April/2021

Review of Ilé

Ilé

Omar Sosa

World Village

Rating: ★★★

The title is a Yoruba word meaning ‘Homecoming’, for Sosa's latest is steeped in the Latin jazz the Cuban-born pianist...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015

Review of Lágrimas Mexicanas

Lágrimas Mexicanas

Vinicius Cantuária & Bill Frisell

Top of the World

Naïve

Rating: ★★★★★

Having made his name sprudng up bossa nova alongside New York's avant-garde set, this isn't the first time Brazilian ex-pat...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Canibalismo

Canibalismo

Chicha Libre

Barbes Records

Rating: ★★★★

Peruvian cumbia (or chicha) is the rock‘n’roll of Latin music. More about feeling and attitude than other regional styles, it...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Sidiba

Sidiba

Bako Dag

Top of the World

Discograph

Rating: ★★★★

Ask any of your griot musicians from Mali, Senegal and the Gambia to name a favourite singer, and the one...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of A Pegada Agora é Essa

A Pegada Agora é Essa

Antonio Neves

Far Out Records

Rating: ★★★★

This exciting project from multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Antonio Neves asks a simple question: what’s the sound of Rio today? Rather...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: May/2021

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