Reviews
Breaking the Thermometer
The American-Haitian singer and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla, who made her name with Carolina Chocolate Drops, won a Songlines Music Award...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Rwanda… You See Ghosts, I See Sky
Originally performing as a quartet, the Rwandan group The Good Ones have reduced to a duo for their fourth album....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2022
Lulu
In 2021, Good Morning Bedlam ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund their third full-length album. Fans from around world pledged...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022
Signo de Fuego
Eliane Correa is a fast-rising star. Probably the only woman to lead a large-format mixed gender Cuban timba-style band (there...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2022
Alrededor de la Húmisha: La Música de los Conjuntos Típicos Amazónicos de Perú
From the mid-1960s, musicians in Peru’s Amazon region began to record the hybrid folk styles that had evolved over five...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
Afrobrasileira
This impressively confident debut album is the work of Barcelona-based Mirla Riomar, singer-songwriter from Salvador da Bahia, in north-east Brazil....
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: June/2022
La Diablera
French-based Argentinian band La Típica Folklórica are trying quite a curious experiment: utilising the format and heft of the traditional...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
Confluens
Confluens (Confluence) is the new release from Brazilian singer-songwriter, Luciano Lu. Residing in Toronto, Lu’s chosen album title perfectly reflects...
Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: June/2022
Midnight Rocker
Age undoubtedly has taken some of the sweetness from Horace Andy’s voice, meaning where once he could sugar-coat his message,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2022
