Reviews
A Danger To Ourselves
Anyone expecting more heightened sci-fi concepts and bright instrumentation, as heard on Lucrecia Dalt's breakthrough album ¡Ay! is going to...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Pasé Bél Tan – Francophonies & Creolities in Louisiana
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
In their study of the Cajun French of Louisiana, sociolinguists Sylvie Dubois and Megan Melançon describe the weakening of local...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
A Tribute to the King of Zydeco
This autumn, Smithsonian Folkways will release a 4-CD box set, Clifton Chenier: King of Louisiana Blues and Zydeco. Comprising 67...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
De las Nieves
Neves, guitarist and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, has worked with some of the old and new masters of Brazilian...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
The Vessel
Colombian composer and multi-instrumentalist Jaime Ospina indulges in Latin and African lounge grooves on his debut album, recorded in his...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Fiery Gizzard
North Carolinian Joseph Decosimo has spent his career studying, teaching and playing traditional music of Appalachia and the American South....
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Dom Salvador JID024
Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed
After collaborating with Brazilian notables like Marcos Valle, João Donato and Azymuth, the workaholic studio partners, Younge & Muhammed, have...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Horizon
From Chicago comes a pleasantly languid set from a group of excellent musicians influenced by 60s and 70s Brazilian music...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Diary of a Fiddler #2: The Empty Nest
Darol Anger may not have invented the bluegrass fiddle ‘chop’ (he learned it from originator Richard Green, who created it...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Masters of Our Roots
A masterclass of 20th century Cuban-American showbiz, this has all the vintage allure of a night at Havana's Tropicana, or...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
