Reviews
Two Friends, One Century of Music
In August 2015 the two great names of tropicália – Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil – performed an all-acoustic set...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2016
Heard a Long Gone Song
Lisa O'Neill won plaudits in the folk world for her 2016 debut Pothole in the Sky. This led to her...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2019
Jaiyede Afro
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics
Orlando Julius should be much more famous outside his native Nigeria. One of the pioneers of Afrobeat, this is the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2014
Ronald Mesquita
Like many Brazilian albums of this generation, it's evident that this self-titled release by Brazilian drummer Ronald Mesquita relies on...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: May/2019
Contracorriente
Contracorriente, the third album from El Balcón, is alive with the unique vibrancy and musical playfulness of son jarocho, traditional...
Reviewed by Kary Stewart in issue: November/2021
Divanegi
Residing in the Gilan Province of northern Iran, Pedram Delara is a young tombak (goblet drum) soloist and rhythm composer....
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2021
The Night Out
The Night Out is the debut album of this Southampton-based quartet, whose music is firmly rooted in the English and...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: November/2020
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Core [Coração]
There is such an alluring charm to the words Chico Buarque pens for his own songs that it is almost...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2017
Folk Music of China Vol 5: Aboriginal Folk Songs of Taiwan
Most of the Austronesianlanguage songs from Taiwan featured on the latest instalment of Naxos World's Folk Music of China series...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: June/2020
Song Hành
This is the first collaboration between the Vietnamese singer and instrumentalist Ngo Hong Quang and the Dutch composer and arranger...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: June/2012
