Reviews
Royal Traveller
Primarily known as a multiple award-winning bluegrass bassist, Missy Raines' penchant for pushing musical boundaries has also found her experimenting...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2019
On Time
Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the fourth album by Daryl Shawn, a maestro of the nylon-string guitar who comes from...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016
Sway
Gérald Toto has kept us waiting seven years for a new solo album. The French-Antillean multi-instrumentalist does not disappoint with...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: November/2018
Nara
Senem Diyici has a long career making music, having started recording her songs in 1969, before going on to develop...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: April/2023
Acoustic
Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Astor Piazzolla
The praise lavished on the three late Astor Piazzolla albums on Nonesuch is in part due to producer Kip Hanrahan's...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012
Tjamuku Ngurra: Grandfather's Country
Aboriginal desert reggae-rock has a history dating back to the late-70s, when Central Australian bands such as No Fixed Address...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
DJ Click y Colelo Identidad Mapuche
The Mapuche are the sole surviving indigenous community in the Southern Cone. Settled mainly in the temperate Andean regions of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2020
Kaftan d’Alma
Maybe we can blame a common Mediterranean feeling working its way into a shared culture, but it is quite interesting...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2021
