Reviews

Iroko

Omar Sosa & Tiganá Santana

The Cuban pianist, Omar Sosa, has worked with artists and picked up awards around the world. Here, he partners with...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Ritmo Satánico

Los Diablos Rojos

The Madrid-based label has assembled this collection of a cool dozen vocal and instrumental tracks from the late 60s to...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Unbound

Bizhiki

Bizhiki are two Native American pow wow singers Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings and Joe Rainey from the Ojibwe people, whose ancestral...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Salsa Salsa

Tito Puente and His Orchestra

In January 1983 Tito Puente took his orchestra to a club in New York, for a rousing and historic session....

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Are Possible

Nathan Bowles Trio

Six years after the release of Plainly Mistaken, banjo maestro Nathan Bowles has once again partnered with double-bassist Casey Toll...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Super Son

Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo

Despite the name of Cuban trombonist Torres’ band (‘Something New’), 50 years later these 1977 cuts can’t help but sound...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Creation

Freddie McKay

For years this was a real rarity. Recorded back in 1979 by the Jamaican singer Freddie McKay, Creation has been...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Old Juniper

The Down Hill Strugglers

The Appalachian-style trio The Down Hill Strugglers return with their first album since the passing of founding member John Cohen....

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Queen of Eyes

West of Roan

Take a pair of harmonising female vocalists, ask them to record outside a one-room cabin on an island off Washington...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Little Electric Chicken Heart

Ana Frango Elétrico

Frango Elétrico’s name comes from the bastardisation of their original surname, Fainguelernt, and while Elétrico’s 2018 debut with its indie...

Reviewed in issue October/2024