Reviews
Cicatrizes do Futuro
A few weeks before writing this, I witnessed a live performance of Deafkids in what was essentially a friend’s barbecue...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Spiritually Unemployed
Ak’chamel, The Giver of Illness
The mysterious Texan duo Ak’chamel’s Bandcamp page describes their sound as “fictional folk music from the post-apocalyptic age”, and that’s...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Tum Tum Tum
There seems to be a deluge of bilingual English and Portuguese albums from London-based Brazilians in this issue, though you...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Learning to be Empty
Self-described “country-folk artist from East Nashville” Jordan Virgil Day belongs to that club of extraordinarily gifted but troubled American troubadours...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Vaiano’s Paisanos
This string trio performs songs salvaged from shellac discs produced in the 1920s, made both by and for immigrant communities...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Time
Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band
Remember when R&B meant the joyful music that emerges when blues and soul are stirred together? Taj Mahal does. In...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
When I Am A Fossil
If there were prizes for song titles, Benny Bleu would be a Grammy winner. Reflecting his day job as a...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Una Noche en La Habana
Buena Vista All Stars formed to continue the legacy left behind by Buena Vista Social Club. This large ensemble features...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Sangú
Mentored by Dizzy Gillespie and now 76, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval can still reach the kind of high notes normally...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
Dualismo Mágico
It is a kind of magic. The voices of twin sisters Valentina and Juanita Áñez bring new harmonic projections –...
Reviewed in issue July/2026
