Reviews
Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance
Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance delivers straight up traditional bluegrass balladry and honky-tonk crooning with authentic aplomb. Canadian-based, The...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
From a Heritage Tree
Like so many recent releases, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Daniel Sherrill’s From a Heritage Tree owes its existence, at least...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Estrela Acesa
Estrela Acesa (Burning Star), is Sessa’s second full-length project and the first album out on Mexican Summer. The São Paulo-born...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Flamenco: Pasado y Presente
The songs on Argentinian producer and guitarist Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde’s new album are mostly originals, but much emphasis is made...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Lady Mondegreen
Once upon a time, Dani Aubert and Ian George spent ten months driving around Europe, the UK and Ireland with...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Puro Carnaval
From the opening track and throughout this album there is an electronic energy and vibrancy that makes you want to...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Narrow Line
You’d be hard pressed to pinpoint the origins of Canadian folk duo Mama’s Broke. Their album Narrow Line more than...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Brasil Novo
Brasil Novo is an energetic, uplifting and wonderfully-eclectic compilation that celebrates Afro Brazilian music. Via eight contemporary tracks, the record...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Bahia Com H
Perhaps because she worked alongside the likes of Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento – among other Brazilian greats –...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Amor (É Revolução)
It’s been ten years since Maga Bo released Quilombo do Futuro, his last solo full-length, and the sound hasn’t changed...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
