Reviews

Palabras Urgentes

Susana Baca

At 77 years old, Baca has never sounded better; her voice has lost none of its dynamism and the careful...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

The High Note Mento Collection

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Mento was the first Jamaican popular music, a mix of calypso and local rhythms that won popularity across the island...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Almas Conectadas

Quantic & Nidia Góngora

This is Quantic's second full-length release with Colombian singer Nidia Góngora (although they have been working together for over ten...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Contracorriente

El Balcón

Contracorriente, the third album from El Balcón, is alive with the unique vibrancy and musical playfulness of son jarocho, traditional...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Adeline

John Showman, Chris Coole, Adrian Gross, Sam Allison, Mark Kilianski

Last March, a quintet of old-timey/bluegrass/Americana string specialists gathered at a cottage on the shores of Beaver Lake in the...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Bad for Business

Adrian + Meredith

Welcome to the Nashville living room of Adrian and Meredith Krygowski, where they and a few friends have worked on...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Path of Seven Colors

Ches Smith & We All Break

Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Cancún

Calle Sur

Despite this being a 20th-anniversary album you can be forgiven for not knowing much about the band Calle Sur –...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Astor Piazzolla: Aconcagua/Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Martynas Levickis

There are too many random, unfocused, greatest hits cover albums of Piazzolla’s work, so it’s good to see a record...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Cantos

Okonkolo

Capturing the slow-burning fervour of an Afro-Cuban bembe – the rituals paying homage to the orisha deities of the Santería...

Reviewed in issue October/2021