Reviews

Mirantes Emocionais

Arthur Melo

Melo, a young Brazilian composer, guitarist and singer, with his band O Ministério da Consciência, presents his take on not...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Diamond Days

Brooks Williams

Diamond Days may be his first solo album in four years but Brooks Williams is no slouch. Since 2020’s Work...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Haz

La Yegros

Buenos Aires native Mariana Yegros absorbed from her parents a love of traditional cumbia and chamamé, a folk music distinctive...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

The Room

Fabiano Do Nascimento & Sam Gendel

Back in 1964 American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto released Getz/Gilberto, one of the bestselling jazz albums...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!

VARIOUS ARTISTS

These ten vintage 45 rpm rompers, most around three to four minutes long, are from the late 60s and early...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Farewell/Despedida

Marcel Bonfim

Immigration is such a hot topic, where the sentiments and creativity of a migrant may be difficult to hear over...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Domino!

La Bottine Souriante

The luminous joy of the dance on the album cover — set at the landmark Van Horne viaduct in Montréal...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Any Light

Loving

Ranging in stylistic deportment between sweetly braised acoustic rock (‘Any Light’, ‘No Mast’), analgesic stoner rock (‘Uncanny Valley’), folky dream...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Ki Moun Ou Ye

Nathalie Joachim

Nathalie Joachim, a Juilliard alum and Grammy-nominated classical flautist, undergoes a distinctive musical evolution in her second album, Ki Moun...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Onaida

Natascha Rogers

Dutch-born singer and percussionist Natascha Rogers released ‘O Baba’ as the first single from this album, With its strong Yoruba...

Reviewed in issue April/2024