Reviews
Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 5
If you’re one of those people for whom vintage Brazilian music never grows old, Nicola Conte’s annual collections of rare...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Up Like the Clouds
There’s a fast-approaching critical mass of bluegrass/ old-time bands in the 21st century, and With it an increase in self-production....
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Milton Nascimento: Original Album Series
Sensing the way the rapt audience on the live album Amigo (1996) hangs on the singer’s every utterance underlines just...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Live at Ronnie Scott’s, Birmingham
Irakere featuring Chucho Valdés
Remastered at Abbey Road from an analogue recording sourced from the British Library, this live set dates back to 1995,...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Buenas Noches, Compatriotas…
If Mercedes Sosa is South America’s Pachamama (Earth Mother), Atahualpa Yupanqui is undoubtedly its patriarch. Born in 1908 in Pergamino,...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Móntate en el Viaje
Wrapped in tacky artwork that recalls 80s über-novelty hit ‘Agadoo’, Móntate en el Viaje is the brainchild of Medellin’s Mauricio...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
The Devil & the Diamond
Back with a pared-down sound and a Buddhist-inspired spiritual bent, Brooklyn fusionists Matuto have ditched the surf guitar that marked...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Rabbits Motel
It’s plainly a good thing that more young Americans are making and buying recordings of Americana. But there’s also no...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
From Bamako to Carencro
BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet
BeauSoleil helped kick-start fresh interest in Cajun music back in the early 80s – this group of youngish Cajuns stripped...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Ya Tengo lo Que Queria!
Ya Tengo lo Que Quería! doesn’t sound like an album made in London. In that sense it’s great evidence of...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
