Reviews
Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85, Vol 2
Soul Jazz continue their excavation of Cuba’s Areito records with a second volume picking up where the first left off....
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Make Your Mark
‘Did you hear the final warning?… Did you hear the people calling?’ The first lines of ‘Hollow’, the opening track...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/February/2022
Silver Lining
Kohesia Ensemble is a mix of Persian and Western musicians whom Australian bassist Kate Pass has brought together, and this...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/February/2022
Fleuves de l’Âme
This debut album from Tunisian percussionist Houeida Hedfi translates from the French as ‘Rivers of the Soul’, and it’s a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/February/2022
Chambacú
Colombian singer Aurita Castillo was just six or seven years old when she recorded two albums for Discos Fuentes in...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Supermoon
The Israeli-born Itai Kriss has spent two decades lighting up New York’s vibrant jazz scene with his flute playing, working...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2022
The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes
This two-CD compilation broadens the historical scope of the American folk revival of the 1960s to include the San Francisco...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022
Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo y los Alaracosos
Ten years after their debut, Peru’s Los Chapillacs are back, and their sound has hardly changed. Which is a great...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Songs of Love & Death
Reg Meuross and Harbottle & Jonas
This collaboration between English acoustic scene veteran Reg Meuross and the Devon folk duo David Harbottle and Freya Jonas sprung...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/February/2022
