Reviews
Causeway Recordings
Endowed with an endearingly streetwise Scottish brogue; sharply honed clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica chops; and a flair for equally...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Sing It for a Lifetime
Heidi Talbot’s latest album is borne from separation and adversity – recorded in a home in the process of being...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Color de Trópico Vol 3
Another varied collection from 1960s and 70s Venezuela courtesy of the duo El Drágon Criollo and his partner El Palmas,...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Breaking the Thermometer
The American-Haitian singer and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla, who made her name with Carolina Chocolate Drops, won a Songlines Music Award...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Lulu
In 2021, Good Morning Bedlam ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund their third full-length album. Fans from around world pledged...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Signo de Fuego
Eliane Correa is a fast-rising star. Probably the only woman to lead a large-format mixed gender Cuban timba-style band (there...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Alrededor de la Húmisha: La Música de los Conjuntos Típicos Amazónicos de Perú
From the mid-1960s, musicians in Peru’s Amazon region began to record the hybrid folk styles that had evolved over five...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Afrobrasileira
This impressively confident debut album is the work of Barcelona-based Mirla Riomar, singer-songwriter from Salvador da Bahia, in north-east Brazil....
Reviewed in issue June/2022
La Diablera
French-based Argentinian band La Típica Folklórica are trying quite a curious experiment: utilising the format and heft of the traditional...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
