Reviews
Taurina
Not for nothing is Anelis Assumpção the daughter of the peculiar and rebellious Brazilian musician Itamar Assumpção. Itamar took part...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Queen City Jubilee
Seriously solid traditional bluegrass music, freshly interpreted and rendered with passion and precision for 21st-century ears; that's the formula used...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Night Chants – Native American Flute
Native American flute albums are oddities in the music business. They have a faithful audience, but not in the mainstream...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Unzip the Horizon
Unzip the Horizon is a remarkable document for many reasons. First and foremost there is Moira Smiley's voice, which commands...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Morose
Polished musicianship and cosy camp-fire gatherings don’t necessarily go hand in hand. Yet the sophisticated arrangements on this album take...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Golpes y Flores
Eliana Cuevas has a superb voice – her timbre is polished, her manner effortless, her enunciation packing something of the...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Life is Good on the Open Road
After a four-year hiatus, Trampled by Turtles return with a highly anticipated new album, a release that captures and refines...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Avant l’Orage
Mesmeric repetition dominates and elevates; this is a real trip of tracks saturated with ancient throwback sounds and tunes which...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Trinca de Ases
Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Nando Reis are key figures in MPB (Música Popular Brasileira): Gil and Gal arrived with...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
The Best Boleros from the Costa Chica
The ‘Costa Chica’, or ‘little coast’, is the stretch of Pacific shore that runs from south of Acapulco to the...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
