Reviews

Wandering Father, Forgotten Son

Silas Lowe

Wandering Father, Forgotten Son is a tribute to the somewhat fraught relationship between singer-songwriter Silas Lowe and his father, Roy...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection

Sun Ra

There are still many notable gaps in the history of the mysterious composer and bandleader Sun Ra. Born in Birmingham,...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Así de Sampling!

Vocal Sampling

It's almost the stuff of fiction: looking for ways to provide music for ill-equipped house parties, six instrumentalists from Havana's...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

New Orleans Funk Vol 4

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz Records does a remarkable job in its reissues of Caribbean music and the New Orleans Funk series always...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Encantações

Renata Rosa

Brazilian music has shown for some time a spectacular porousness and a seeming ease in introducing traditional forms to modern...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura Anthology

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Gilles Peterson first started his Havana Cultura project back in 2008. Since then, the project has garnered several albums worth...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Tres Mil Uno

Marcela Arroyo, Andreas Engler & Daniel Schläppi

The title of this intriguing collection, Tres Mil Uno (3001), perhaps indicates that Argentinian-born, Swiss-based singer Marcela Arroyo, Swiss violinist...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Fêníx

Azymuth

There's often consternation when a revered band loses a key member of its personnel. But then along comes a Phil...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

The Willow Collection

Cassie and Maggie

Albums do not usually come as beautifully conceived and packaged as The Willow Collection from young Nova Scotian sisters Cassie...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Sonho Real

Flavia Coelho

It's ten years since Flavia Coelho moved from her native Brazil to Paris, where she created a reggae-tinged mixture she...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017