Reviews
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
Songs of the Naxi of Southwest China
Residing in the Yunnan province of south-western China, the Naxi are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group, numbering around 320,000. Despite their...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2022
Anomaly
This is the first solo release from the British sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun. It features a large cast...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2022
The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
The Slovenian trio Širom are back with their fourth album fuelled by the search for a reconnection with the remote...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: June/2022
Samarpan
Introduced to Indian classical music by Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and the gloriously experimental Debashish Bhattachrya, the...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
