Reviews
El Existential
The first thing that will strike most listeners as strange about the latest offering from Grupo Fantasma is to see...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Bloom
Comprising ten classic Scots folk songs Siobhan Miller’s new album is a celebration of Scots song. But this is no...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2022
Canibalismo
Peruvian cumbia (or chicha) is the rock‘n’roll of Latin music. More about feeling and attitude than other regional styles, it...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
A Famous Local Singer
Perhaps it’s down to the peculiarities of the Italian education system, which refuses to unleash graduates until their late 20s,...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: March/2014
Levanta Poeira
Levanta Poeira is a puzzling musical object. Compiler DJ Tahira is a well-known vinyl digger based in São Paulo and...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2018
Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya
This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Shall We Hope
Just when you think the cultural lodestone of America's Civil War has given up every drop of blood it could...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69)
Encouraged by an Indonesian government keen to engender ideas of national identity in the newly independent country, a raft of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/February/2023
Malk
Given the pheno¬menal international success of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunu-pingu's 2008 solo album, the blind Aboriginal singer's earlier work has sometimes...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
