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Review of Pase Lo Que Pase

Pase Lo Que Pase

El Dragón Criollo

El Palmas Music

Rating: ★★★

Colombian musician Paulo Olarte, based in Geneva, is the leader of several groups. All of them take as their starting...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Bahía

Bahía

Ana Carla Maza

Persona Editorial

Rating: ★★★★★

Ana Carla Maza is a virtuoso Cuban composer, cellist and singer. Her latest album, Bahía, takes you on a spellbinding...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Las Historias Que Han Dejado

Las Historias Que Han Dejado

Aguamadera

Quartsupde Lune/UVM Distribution

Rating: ★★★

Latin America’s folk fusion traditions share common roots in Spain, West Africa, Poland, France and other Old World cultures, often...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of El Amor No es Para Débiles

El Amor No es Para Débiles

Bareto

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Peru’s Bareto have responded to the departure of their lead singer Mauricio Mesones by recruiting a number of guest vocalists...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Agüeros

Agüeros

Sonoras Mil

Sonoras Mil

Rating: ★★★

One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Songs from the River Wind

Songs from the River Wind

Eliza Gilkyson

Howlin’ Dog Records

Rating: ★★★

Singer-songwriter and activist Eliza Gilkyson follows up her politically charged 2020 release titled, poignantly enough, 2020, with a collection of...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Carnaval de Pernambuco

Carnaval de Pernambuco

João Poeta

João Poeta

Rating: ★

Writing a one-star review is never nice, especially when you know that the artists’ hearts are in the right place,...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of A World Like This

A World Like This

George Mann

George Mann

Rating: ★★★

Seasoned producer and performer of what he describes as ‘folk/roots/labour and protest music,’ George Mann is a former union organiser...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Harley Kimbro Lewis

Harley Kimbro Lewis

Harley Kimbro Lewis

Harley Kimbro Lewis

Rating: ★★★

Collectively, Martin Harley, Daniel Kimbro and Sam Lewis draw upon low country and backwoods blues, Appalachian folk balladry, cosmopolitan R&B...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Abrazo Abierto

Abrazo Abierto

London Tango Orchestra

London Tango Orchestra

Rating: ★★★

This London-based octet, led by violinist Caroline Pearsall, play for TV shows, dance events and workshops. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the group...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

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