Reviews
Camino al Mar
Colombian siblings Andrea and Paulo Olarte Toro are the duo Acid Coco and this is their second album since the...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: June/2022
Timbuktu
During her first spell on World Circuit, Oumou Sangaré made some of the finest albums to come out of West...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee
This album certainly has deep roots. The original Get on Board by the folk-blues duo of harmonica player Sonny Terry...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Home
Here’s an interesting oddity. A group of African musicians sing in a makeshift studio on the banks of Lake Malawi,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Between Two Worlds
Based in Melbourne, Australia, with members hailing from Colombia and Chile, Amaru Tribe play cumbia, but not as we know...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2022
De Par en Par
This Swiss-based Argentinian singer-songwriter takes some of the moody melodrama of tango and a clod of the earthiness of her...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
Kintal da Banda
The Angolan legend José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho, aka Bonga, turns 80 this year and his latest album is released...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Tinta y Tiempo
Uruguayan songwriter Jorge Drexler’s first album in five years shares many-hued stories of love and lust with classic Drexlerian poetic...
Reviewed by Catalina Maria Johnson in issue: June/2022
Riitti
This debut album from Finnish duo, Liisa Haapanen (cello, voice, percussion) and Janne Ojajärvi (harmonica, jaw harp, flute, voice and...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: June/2022
