Reviews
Getz/Gilberto ’76
When João Gilberto and Tom Jobim slowed down samba and gave birth to bossa nova, a languorous song form that...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Tales of Mozambique
Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
As curators of the excellent 100% Dynamite series, Soul Jazz introduced many to the lesser-known wonders of Jamaican music. On...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Tribute to Irakere
Paying tribute to your former band might sound like a vainglorious kind of nostalgia, if it weren’t for the fact...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Sociedade Recreativa
There's something about the off-kilter charm of the music of north-east Brazil that can sometimes be more appealing than the...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Haiti Vodou: 1937-1962 Folk Trance Possession
Following Frémeaux's 2013 two-CD compilation Jamaica Folk Trance Possession, comes this set of mostly field recordings from Haiti. But where...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
The Rough Guide to Bottleneck Blues
You could say that bottleneck, or slide, guitar embodies the dichotomy at the heart of the blues. On the one...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Accordion in Americas
The poor squeezebox – if it's not a busker on autoplay, it's an off-the-peg cumbia band or a Seine-spoiling cliché-churner....
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Dubcatcher 2: Wicked My Yout
The Russian-born, New York-based DJ Vadim returns with another fast-paced reggae volume under the pseudonym Dubcatcher, this time pulling in...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Natural
Nicola Conte & Stefania Dipierro
For a brief period in the 1960s, Brazil was at the epicentre of all things musically chic and sophisticated. On...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Weighted Mind
The last time Sierra Hull released an album, the mandolin prodigy and protégé of Alison Krauss was only a year...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
