Reviews
Raizes
As one of the UK’s most prolific Brazilian musicians, the percussionist Adriano Adewale has amassed an impressive list of credits...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Stradivarius in Rio
Viktoria Mullova’s 2012 autobiography From Russia to Love describes how at the age of 24 she fled Soviet Russia in...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Duw Duw
An abiding affinity for Cajun and zydeco music permeates Duw Duw, the debut album by London-based singer-guitarist Dai Price and...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Saudade
The North American duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have long mixed world music flavours into their electronic dance...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove
The Rough Guide series may have come fairly late to the tropical vinyl-mining party, but better late than never. And...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Siriá
Wild yelps, rattling drums, relentless riffs and booming brass - this is the sound of an Amazonian street party. To...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
A Dotted Line
A quarter-century after capturing the imagination of the bluegrass community as pre-teen prodigies, Chris Thile (mandolin/vocals), Sara Watkins (fiddle/vocals) and...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Casa de Trova: Cuba 50s
A decade or so ago, this album would have been one among dozens. With the decline of the CD trade,...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Tambutronic
Meaning ‘stories and drums’ in Papiamento, the native language of the Dutch Caribbean, the five- piece Kuenta i Tambú were...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
