Reviews
Boleros Psicodélicos II
The bolero is the Latin American equivalent of the torch song, expressing the anguish of love and loss, and using...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Retumba La Tierra
Calle Mambo are a five-piece band that combine traditional Chilean instrumentation with synthesizers and modern flourishes to create a hybrid...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
8 Miles from Rusk
Jason Dea West & The Siskiyou Crest
Boasting a backstory that includes younger days as a busker and freight train hopper, as well as working the circus...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
The Mighty Rootsmen
Long in the making, US rock producer Ralph Sall’s Mighty Rootsmen project sees ten evergreen rock and pop standards reimagined...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Iration Steppas: Dubs from the Foundation
Founded in the early 1990s in Leeds, Iration Steppas is the creative brainchild of Mark Iration and one of the...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
MVD LUV
Love – or rather, ‘LUV’ – is the operative word and it’s hard not to be enchanted (or occasionally irritated)...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Mad Dogs
Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet Grace Rogers comes from a family of old time, traditional and stringband musicians – during...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Cacofonia
A Brazilian based in Los Angeles, Gabriel da Rosa’s music pays tribute to his homeland with a gently modernised updating...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
In the West
In the West, the third full-length release from Gabrielle Macrae (fiddle, guitar, bass, vocals) and Barry Southern (banjo, guitar, dobro,...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
Marca Passo
Marking the 50th anniversary of their pioneering 1975 debut Azimüth, the 25th album from the Brazilian jazz-funk trio is the...
Reviewed in issue August/2025
