Reviews
Saboreando – Pot Full of Soul
The 107th Street Stickball Team
This pick-up outfit featured in Vampisoul’s marvellous retrospective of producer Bobby Marín’s work, We’ve Got a Groovy Thing Going [reviewed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2025
Out Here on the Perimeter (1989–1996)
By 1989, where the Out Here on the Perimeter boxset begins, Jamaican drummer Lincoln ‘Style’ Scott was a fully committed...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2025
Abundância
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of her career, Portuguese singer Maria João is releasing one of her boldest records to...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2025
Arcadia
A remarkable trait of Alison Krauss & Union Station is the consistently sublime nature of the band’s output. It’s been...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2025
7 Portais
Bergamini may come from an academic background but he has played percussion alongside a wide range of Brazilian artists, from...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2025
Ekoya
After three albums of uncompromising Congolese street funk, Jupiter Bokondji and his band have essayed something a little different on...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
Do You Remember?
Hailing from Germany, this amorphous cross-cultural jazz collective have been making waves on the Berlin underground with their infectious grooves,...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: April/2025
B O D I E S
Berlin-based Australian singer-songwriter Kat Frankie leads an eight-member all-female a cappella vocal ensemble on this, the group’s debut self-titled album....
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2025
Forgotten Tunes
Jarek Adamów has been championing traditional Polish folk music for some 25 years. His albums have received mixed reviews in...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2025
Live At Carnegie Hall
Playing live at New York’s Carnegie Hall is a career-crowning moment for Latin American artists, representing global recognition and a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2025
