Reviews
Atlântico Negro
The title is a translation of The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy’s celebrated book which examines the continuities in Black diasporic...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Cancionera
We know Natalia Lafourcade can turn on the intimacy and intensity. On 2024’s Live at Carnegie Hall, she managed to...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Nyron Higor
Higor’s first album, Fio de Lâmina, which came out at the end of 2022, was a warm, immersive, instrumental bath...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow
Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
Wielding only the bare necessities – banjo, fiddle and bones – Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson, founding members (along with...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
L’Nu’k Mawiejik
Sacred Wolf Singers x Simon Walls
This collaboration between Tee Cloud, founder of the Indigenous Sacred Wolf Singers, and the Canadian singer-songwriter and producer Simon Walls...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Salsa de la Bahia: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz
In this double-disc third volume of the Salsa de la Bahia series, documentary-maker and timbales-player Rita Hargreaves highlights the contributions...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
El Errante
On their latest album, Montréal’s El Balcón have delivered a dynamite collection of self-written songs seamlessly blending lead singer Valeria’s...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Tremendo Caché
Re-released and remastered on vinyl for its 50th anniversary, Tremendo Caché marked the second of a string of collaborations between...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Dicen que la Muerte murió
With so many musical influences from all over the world, it’s hard to know where to start with this four-piece...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
A Fiestar
Andy Gola & Colé Colé Orquesta
With a horn section like Earth Wind & Fire on amphetamines, furious percussion, a wailing guitar and potent vocals, the...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
