Reviews
Midnight Rocker
Age undoubtedly has taken some of the sweetness from Horace Andy’s voice, meaning where once he could sugar-coat his message,...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Camino al Mar
Colombian siblings Andrea and Paulo Olarte Toro are the duo Acid Coco and this is their second album since the...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee
This album certainly has deep roots. The original Get on Board by the folk-blues duo of harmonica player Sonny Terry...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Between Two Worlds
Based in Melbourne, Australia, with members hailing from Colombia and Chile, Amaru Tribe play cumbia, but not as we know...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
De Par en Par
This Swiss-based Argentinian singer-songwriter takes some of the moody melodrama of tango and a clod of the earthiness of her...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Tinta y Tiempo
Uruguayan songwriter Jorge Drexler’s first album in five years shares many-hued stories of love and lust with classic Drexlerian poetic...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-83
Mexican sonidero (DJ) Gabriel Dueñez had been playing a set for five or six hours when his turntable began overheating...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Bem-Vinda Amizade
Even those with only a passing interest in Brazilian music will have heard the song ‘Mas Que Nada’ – a...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Wganda Kenya
Wganda Kenya were a studio group of Colombian musicians created to offer a homegrown alternative to the increasingly-popular African and...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Never Slow Down
In the fall of 2019, when The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys made their Grand Ole Opry debut, their third album, Toil,...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
