Reviews
Viento y Tiempo: Live at Blue Note Tokyo
Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Aymée Nuviola
In August 2019 the award-winning Cuban artists Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Aymée Nuviola teamed up to play six sold-out nights at...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2020
Sunshine Day: The Boyhood Sessions
Richard Linklater spent 12 years making the 2014 movie Boyhood, a remarkable and sprawling investigation of the human condition refracted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
Song to a Refugee
After five fine albums of Appalachian-tinged folk songs, Diana Jones felt too devastated by the horror of Trump’s election to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
The Promise
Turkish oud player Mehmet Polat further develops his style on this solo album with the help of others on traditional...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020
Windrush
As a Pennsylvaniaborn singer-songwriter and mandolinist married to a Frenchwoman and living in Cambridgeshire during the Brexit tussles, it’s perhaps...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020
Mente
The Brazilian multiinstrumentalist Thiago Nassif has been active for around a decade, switching scenes from São Paulo to Rio de...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2020
African Rhythms 1970-1982
Oneness of Juju, led by James ‘Plunky’ Branch, were one of the first US bands to incorporate elements of African...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020
En Español
In the US, the Mavericks are packaged to the mainstream as a country band. They can play anything, from rockabilly...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020
