Reviews
Saudade
Saudade is the debut album from Brazilian classical guitarist Plínio Fernandes. A love letter to the songs Fernandes grew up...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Estar Ahí
With or without his band La Chicana, Acho Estol’s music always has something of a tea-concert quality. An airy lightness...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
¡Ay!
¡Ay!, the seventh solo release from Colombian-born, Berlin-based musician and producer Lucrecia Dalt, is an album of twin concepts. The...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Flea Market Music
Leonardo Marques, guitarist of Udora and sound recordist to the likes of Milton Nascimento, returns with a fourth solo project,...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
All It Brings
All It Brings begins with fiddler Jocelyn Pettit step dancing in that familiar cantering cadence of Scots-Irish-French origin that Canadians...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Em Casa Com os Gil
Released to coincide both with Gil’s 80th birthday and the Amazon documentary series At Home With the Gils, this soundtrack...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
The New Faith
Following his impressive 2020 debut album, Spider Tales (reviewed in October 2020, #161), The New Faith fulfils the promise of...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Long Time to Be Gone
Listening to ‘Jenny Put the Kettle On’, the opening track on Nora Brown’s third full-length album, Long Time to Be...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Rolling Golden Holy
Rolling Golden Holy straddles the realms of acoustic roots, indie rock, jazz, folk, country and pop. Drawing upon that mash-up...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Calypso Rose Forever
The return to the spotlight in 2016 of the veteran Calypso Rose, half-a-century after she was first crowned Trinidad’s carnival...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
