Reviews
Mean Old World
A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Gordie Tentrees was raised on a farm in an environment described in his bio...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
El Aleph/Electroacustica
About 20 years ago – as a new cultural nationalism swept through Argentina – tango became cool again, emerging from...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads
With planet Earth facing myriad apocalypse-inducing crises, Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads, is a timely project....
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Boula
Gaston Jean-Baptiste – he prefers ‘Bonga’ – is a Haitian drummer, multi-instrumentalist and painter of vivid, colourful canvasses that capture...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Set Me Free
Dwayne Dopsie is the son of the late Rockin’ Dopsie, a Louisiana Creole accordionist who, via recording several albums for...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
The Magnolia Sessions
Each month from September 2020 until May 2021, the first season of The Magnolia Sessions delivered a new session recorded...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
El Grito
Cumbia is to 2021 what tango electronica was in 2001; for every dashing, inspired revivalist experiment there are dozens of...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Madremonte
Madremonte is the debut album from the Europe-based Colombian duo, Jaguar. The title of the album makes reference to an...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
16 Rayos
The word ‘mambo’ conjures up shimmying couples almost losing themselves to crazed percussion. But the dance craze was, in fact,...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
Explaining The Ballad of Dood & Juanita to an interviewer, Sturgill Simpson offered, ‘I’ve only ever really been interested in...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
