Reviews
Agôra
This prolific world-jazz trio from São Paulo boosted their profile in 2020 with a BBC 6 Music Album of the...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Anskoonamakew slii Shansoon
It's not often that music recorded a few weeks ago evokes a vivid atmosphere of many centuries past. Andrea Menard's...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Wayo
On the opening title-track of Benjamin's third album, the guitar riffs explode like Led Zeppelin and the drums detonate like...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Common Nation of Sorrow
Americans are angry. The signs are hard to miss. Bluegrass and old-time banjo music are good for expressing these discontents,...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Behique
Fernando García is a young Puerto Rican drummer, composer and educator based in New York. His previous releases have garnered...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Peripheral Visions
Brooklyn-based guitarist-composer Grant Gordy's first album in more than a decade, Peripheral Visions, is an impressive addition to the chamber...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Pa Mi Tres
Yarima Blanco won the De la Tradición Sonera y Campesina (From the Son and Country Tradition) award at last year's...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Passarinho
The Brazilian cultural archetype, the Passarinho or ‘Little Bird,’ serves as a harbinger of environmental disaster on this singer-songwriter's second...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
É o Que a Casa Oferece
Having relocated to Los Angeles in 2010, Brazilian musician Gabriel da Rosa turned into a DJ that introduced his country's...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Ramblin' Soul
Count this as a lucky ramble in Melissa Carper's beloved Dodge van (the subject of one of her 11 original...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
