Reviews

Entreverados

Burgos Buschini Dúo

Gato, zamba, chacarera, milonga: these musics were the seedbed from which tango sprung and have since become an ongoing rural...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

The Rough Guide to Holy Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Featuring 25 tracks of vintage acoustic blues – almost all of them dating from the 1920s and 30s – this...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

End of the World Remixes

Elza Soares

Remix albums are notoriously a mixed bag and this one's no different, with a handful of Portuguese and Brazilian remixers,...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Burning Inspiration

Royal Sounds

British roots reggae has become a dedicated fixation for Bristol-based Sugar Shack Records. Along with their two sister labels, they...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Core [Coração]

Maria Pia de Vito

There is such an alluring charm to the words Chico Buarque pens for his own songs that it is almost...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Revolutionary Minds

Benjamin Zephaniah

Zephaniah may be best known as a poet but, over the years, he's made occasional albums marrying dub and reggae...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Dance Moderno

Sérgio Mendes

In the early 1960s, before swingers everywhere were listening to the version of ‘The Look of Love’ by Brasil ‘66...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Let's get it out of the way: this is a straightforward, mainstream country album. It's not old-time, it's not bluegrass...

Reviewed in issue November/2017

Toronto Mambo

Sean Bellaviti & Conjunto Lacalu

Pianist, band leader and principal arranger Sean Bellaviti and long-time collaborator, percussionist Luis Orbegoso, are both leading lights of the...

Reviewed in issue November/2017

Bon Bon

Dai & the Ramblers

Somewhere in the polyglot roots garden, twined between Cajun, indie-folk, R&B, Gypsy jazz and a few other things, reside Dai...

Reviewed in issue November/2017