Just how much juice is there left to squeeze from the salsa market? Tons, if the recent assembly line of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2010
With Masekela's live dates cancelled while he recovers from prostate cancer, this budget-price reissue of a trio of classic albums...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
The story of Luiz Gonzaga could have come straight out of a novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado: at 18...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Harp, bass, drum – doesn’t sound much of an energy-hogging power trio. But Solus 3 manage to generate plenty of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2010
Any musician should be wise enough to let his or her biography inform their music, and this is particularly true...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2019
Gunnar Idenstam and Ola Stinnerbom
This is the most extraordinary coming together of different musical worlds and cultures created by visionary musicians: the Swedish organist...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2022
This joyous compilation aims to demonstrate calypso's pre-ska popularity across the Caribbean region and beyond. The first calypso recordings were...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The third volume of Kuana Torres Kahele's six-part CD series celebrating the musical spirit of individual Hawaiian Islands continues the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan	 in issue: July/2015
Increasingly often, recordings turn up for review that might perhaps be referred to under the heading ‘FAWMoR’ – Forcibly Assigned...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2013
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