Reviews

Solitaire

3hattrio

Solitaire, 3hattrio's third album, builds upon the band's legacy as self-proclaimed purveyors of ‘American desert music’ by which is meant...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017

Real Rio

VARIOUS ARTISTS

As much as I’m reluctant to begin a review of a Brazilian compilation with a football metaphor; this double-CD really...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017

Cool

Joyce Moreno

For most artists, the obligatory Tin Pan Alley standards album usually coincides with their qualification for a free bus pass....

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017

Gaita na Fábrica: Sounds from the Squeezebox Factory

Renato Borghetti Quarteto

The fábrica – as in factory – of the title refers to a physical space in Porto Alegre where Borghetti...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017

Dedans le Sud de la Louisiane

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Oh what a gem this package is, containing a 47-minute DVD of a documentary shot in rural Louisiana in the...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017

Overflow

Edwin Sanz

Edwin Sanz spent years playing congas with European-based salsa ambassadors Mercadonegro and then had a spell in Rodrigo y Gabriela's...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Biguine: The Anthology of Traditional Antillean Music (1930-1954)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This fourth volume of Franco-Caribbean roots and jazz music from excellent archivists Frémeaux excavates a wealth of biguine music, produced...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Rio Bossa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Even if you weren’t all Rio’d-out after the wall-to-wall Olympics coverage, you’d probably need another bossa nova compilation about as...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Tam… Tam… Tam…! Reimagined

Sonzeira de Gilles Peterson

It's fair to say that Gilles Peterson was bowled over when he heard the lost Brazilian classic Tam… Tam… Tam…!...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

MM3

Metá Metá

It's slightly disappointing that this São Paulo four-piece's third album opens with a brooding Joy Division-style chord progression that then...

Reviewed in issue December/2016