Reviews
Gabriele Poso presents Ritmo Italiano: ‘Unspoken Sounds of Italian Tamburo’
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
One of Mr Bongo's stocks-in-trade is unusual compilations, and this one is certainly out of the ordinary. The Sardinian compiler,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2025
De las Nieves
Neves, guitarist and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, has worked with some of the old and new masters of Brazilian...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: September/2025
Sheger
Trio Kazanchis +1 (so named because there's four of them) originally released Sheger in 2019 as their final album, just...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: September/2025
Macaronesia Vol. 1
Entre Ilhas is one of those projects that must be praised for its historical and conceptual relevance, being potentially the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: September/2025
The Vessel
Colombian composer and multi-instrumentalist Jaime Ospina indulges in Latin and African lounge grooves on his debut album, recorded in his...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: September/2025
Electro Baghdad
Projects that fuse electronic and traditional music risk doing neither genre justice if they don’t get the basics – songwriting...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: September/2025
Fiery Gizzard
North Carolinian Joseph Decosimo has spent his career studying, teaching and playing traditional music of Appalachia and the American South....
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: September/2025
Só Ouço
What was originally supposed to be a semester of student exchange in Rio de Janeiro, turned into a year and...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: September/2025
Dom Salvador JID024
Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed
After collaborating with Brazilian notables like Marcos Valle, João Donato and Azymuth, the workaholic studio partners, Younge & Muhammed, have...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2025
Horizon
From Chicago comes a pleasantly languid set from a group of excellent musicians influenced by 60s and 70s Brazilian music...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
