Reviews
Crooked Tree
Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle’s first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer. Recorded...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87
By the late 70s Peruvian cumbia had become synonymous with neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Lima populated by internal migrants...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
In My Own Time
Karen Dalton, who died in 1993 at age 55, was for a brief period in the 1960s the darling dark...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Pase Lo Que Pase
Colombian musician Paulo Olarte, based in Geneva, is the leader of several groups. All of them take as their starting...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Bahía
Ana Carla Maza is a virtuoso Cuban composer, cellist and singer. Her latest album, Bahía, takes you on a spellbinding...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Las Historias Que Han Dejado
Latin America’s folk fusion traditions share common roots in Spain, West Africa, Poland, France and other Old World cultures, often...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
El Amor No es Para Débiles
Peru’s Bareto have responded to the departure of their lead singer Mauricio Mesones by recruiting a number of guest vocalists...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Agüeros
One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
Songs from the River Wind
Singer-songwriter and activist Eliza Gilkyson follows up her politically charged 2020 release titled, poignantly enough, 2020, with a collection of...
Reviewed in issue April/2022
