Reviews

La Gran Diversión

Roberto Fonseca

Out beyond the Buena Vista Social Club there is a piano. Roberto Fonseca will meet you there. Having stoked his...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Ojinga’s Own

Yoruba Singers

Formed in 1971 and still going strong with Eze Rockcliffe remaining at the helm, Yoruba Singers were first among equals...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Pan

Grupo Pan

Fans of Venezuelan rock (and there should be more) will be eager to snap up this long out-of-print jewel, originally...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Habana-Bahia

Yilian Cañizares

The cities of Havana and Salvador are widely regarded as epicentres of Afro-Latin musical culture – at the head of...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Motewolonuwok

Jeremy Dutcher

When Jeremy Dutcher released his first opus, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, in 2018, very few people outside the classical world had heard...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Aguajes de Mar y Manglar

Cantares del Pacifico

Taking inspiration from the mystic waters of the Naya, Yurumanguí and Achincayá rivers, Aguajes de Mar y Manglar (Marshes and...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Art Populaire

Duo Boulerice-Demers

Two members of the prize-winning Québécois vocal group Le Vent du Nord — Nicolas Boulerice and Olivier Demers — are...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Vapor

Bixiga 70

This engrossing fifth album from the São Paulo groove collective finds the band exploring a much wider musical palette. A...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Baiana

Baiana

Liverpudlian Laura Doyle certainly fooled this particular Anglophone. Hearing the opening ‘Samba Mortal’, upbeat carnival music sung convincingly in Portuguese,...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Traverse

Laura Risk, Nicholas Williams & Rachel Aucoin

Californian Laura Risk now resides in Montreal and has been playing Québécois fiddle for decades. Traverse is her first solo...

Reviewed in issue October/2023