Reviews
Cumbias Internacionales
Tita Duval y El Nuevo Ritmo de Bobby Rey
This reissue from Vampisoul is a star-studded album, headed up by the Argentinian couple Roberto Rey and Tita Duval. Duval...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2019
Grad Gori!
For some years singer Brina Vogelnik has headed one of Slovenia's most popular neo-folk bands, Brina, mixing folklore with a...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2019
Òran Bagraidh
This is a piece of musical archaeology. It feels like you are hearing sounds and words from the distant past....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2019
Sentimento Popolare
Camilla Barbarito's musical journey is a rich and meandering one: as a young girl she spent time in Mali, and...
Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: April/2019
Jazz Batá 2
As a master of Cuban piano, any new release by Chucho Valdés is sure to spark excitement among Latin music...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2019
Un Autre Blanc
This is hailed as the veteran Malian singer's final album: at nearly 70, Keita is ‘retiring.’ Certainly, Un Autre Blanc...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2019
Bachata Haiti
While Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island they are divided – the French colonised Haiti while the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
Blackmoon1348 with the Tibetan Monks of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
Blackmoon1348 with the Tibetan Monks of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
This record comes in the wake of a historic tour in which the Tibetan monks of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: April/2019
Inner Rhyme
French-Lebanese composer and violinist Layale Chaker's debut album, Inner Rhyme, which took two years to compose between Beirut, Paris and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2019
Here Come the Young
A veteran singer-songwriter and activist, Joseph has purveyed social and protest songs since his first studio release in 1983. The...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2019
