Reviews
Guia
It wasn't until Caetano Veloso spoke highly of him in his blog that Antonio Zambujo began getting the due recognition...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Banda Sonora: Música para Filmes
Apart from big hitters like Antonio Pinto, it's relatively rare to see music written for Brazilian cinema enjoying any kind...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2015
Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over and Through
Smart work from the good folk who run the Alan Lomax Archives – from a catalogue of sound recordings spanning...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Porta do Coraçao
Maybe you’ve heard of him through Rabih Abou-Khalil and the brilliant Em Português – a collaboration on which the Lebanese...
Reviewed by Gonçaio Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Bali 1928, Vol II: Tembang Kuna – Songs from an Earlier Time
The second of five planned discs collecting 78s of traditional Balinese music, this album's music may be 87 years old,...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: November/2015
New Road
It's been 11 years since Barry released his first solo album and in that time the north Kerry piper has...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Oras Dezaoradas
Lily Henley is a storyteller. Here she weaves traditional Sephardic Jewish ballads (alongside three originals) into her own melodic compositions,...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: July/2022
Asro
Kala Jula and the Gangbé Brass Band have each had their own albums issued by Buda Musique, and now they’re...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2023
Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s
For anyone interested in Hungarian music, this is a very useful overview of the last 40 years, since the beginning...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
