Reviews

Cancún

Calle Sur

Despite this being a 20th-anniversary album you can be forgiven for not knowing much about the band Calle Sur –...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021

The Great Blue Wheel

Meelodi

Bergen-based but worldly in concept, Meelodi is the brain-child of Norwegian Ole Andre Farstad and Iranian Medi Farmani. On this,...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2021

Atlântico

Fapy Lafertin New Quartet

Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021

Tobie

Dagadana

Dagadana’s fifth studio album should be given kudos as an attempt to provide ‘cheerfulness and generosity’ in our often gloomy,...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2021

Astor Piazzolla: Aconcagua/Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Martynas Levickis

There are too many random, unfocused, greatest hits cover albums of Piazzolla’s work, so it’s good to see a record...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021

Cantos

Okonkolo

Capturing the slow-burning fervour of an Afro-Cuban bembe – the rituals paying homage to the orisha deities of the Santería...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021

Manduka

Manduka

That Alexandre Manuel Thiago de Mello (aka Manduka), born in Petrópolis, a city in the south-east Brazil, isn’t a bigger...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2021

Iorram

Aidan O’Rourke

Iorram (Boat Song) begins with electro-washes of ambient sound, swooping back and forth, as if in the process of self...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021

Czary i Czarty

Wicher

With last issue’s Devil’s Fiddle album, the recent Daj Ognia disc with its dance-of-death track and this Wicher release, maybe...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

River of Happy Souls

Bapi Das Baul

Bapi Das Baul is son of Purna Das Baul and grandson of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who became friendly with...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021