Reviews
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Banda De Pífanos Caju Pinga Fogo
The pífano is a type of fife flute that probably originated from Europe but was adapted using bamboo by the...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Sancocho Trifásico
As their hilarious name suggests, Empanadas Ilegales cross South American borders with impunity. Musically that is. The Vancouver-based, multi-heritage band...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Avenida Paulista, da Consolação ao Paraíso
The Avenida Paulista is the beating heart of São Paulo. Nowhere is the wide disparities in Brazilian society more apparent...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Boleros Psicodélicos II
The bolero is the Latin American equivalent of the torch song, expressing the anguish of love and loss, and using...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Retumba La Tierra
Calle Mambo are a five-piece band that combine traditional Chilean instrumentation with synthesizers and modern flourishes to create a hybrid...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
8 Miles from Rusk
Jason Dea West & The Siskiyou Crest
Boasting a backstory that includes younger days as a busker and freight train hopper, as well as working the circus...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
The Mighty Rootsmen
Long in the making, US rock producer Ralph Sall’s Mighty Rootsmen project sees ten evergreen rock and pop standards reimagined...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Iration Steppas: Dubs from the Foundation
Founded in the early 1990s in Leeds, Iration Steppas is the creative brainchild of Mark Iration and one of the...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
MVD LUV
Love – or rather, ‘LUV’ – is the operative word and it’s hard not to be enchanted (or occasionally irritated)...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Mad Dogs
Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet Grace Rogers comes from a family of old time, traditional and stringband musicians – during...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
