Reviews
Alma Adentro
The old black and white photo of a cool dancing couple on the cover and the subtitle of this album...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
The Unbroken Surface of Snow
Andrew Cronshaw released the beautiful Ochre back in 2005 [reviewed in #27]; seven years later comes The Unbroken Surface of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
Second Nature
Recent winners of Best World Music Group at Canada’s Folk Music Award, Toronto’s Minor Empire bring a subtlety to this...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2012
Stockholm-Dakar
To get the back¬story out of the way first: Sousou and Maher Cissoko grew up on two different continents –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
Soho
On his debut album, Cuban singer-songwriter Domingo Candelario leaves behind many of the Cuban and Brazilian influences he’s been honing...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2012
Gakondo
This is the fifth album from Canada-based Jacques ‘Popo’ Muri-gande, a singer and guitarist from Rwanda born in a Burundian...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Bet
Bet is the second offering from Jerusalem-based world music fusion band AndraLaMoussia. Both the album title and the band name...
Reviewed by Barry Davis in issue: March/2012
Rompiendo Aguas
The name of this duo, made up of Gerona-born Silvia Pérez Cruz and Israeli Ravid Goldschmidt, doesn’t refer to the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
Italy: Music of the Albanians of Calabria
The outcome of Fabrice Contri’s fieldworks in northern Calabria between 2009 and 2010, this album features music of the Arbëreshë,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2012
