Reviews
Coti Coti
How much sax can you take? Anyone working in the vicinity of a tireless one-hit busker or being driven by...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Shall We Hope
Just when you think the cultural lodestone of America's Civil War has given up every drop of blood it could...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Distrito Federal
Camilo Lara is a busy man – music supervisor for Disney's Coco, founding member of Mexrrissey and Compass, perennial collaborator...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Cuttin' Grass Vol 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions
Multi-time Grammy and Americana music award winner, country music singer-songwriter and actor Sturgill Simpson has fed 20 of his original...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
The Royal Chase
Nation Beat are a new name to me, but a cursory internet search reveals they have existed for more than...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Tierra Que Arde
The music of Argentina's rural interior is all the things Buenos Aires' tango, blues, pop and rock are not: it...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Songs Doc Didn't Sing
Arthel ‘Doc’ Watson, the legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter from Deep Gap, North Carolina, possessed a uniquely compelling vocal instrument. Smoky...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Jaime & Nair
Arranger, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jaime Alem and his wife Nair de Cândia's 1979 touchstone ‘Passará’ remains perhaps one of the...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
The Gold Diggers
The 11-strong Lengaïa are a salsa juggernaut, a heavyweight Latin orchestra whose distinctive vocals and signature horn heft – three...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Barretto-Power
The late great conguero, vocalist and bandleader Ray Barretto was the first US-born percussionist to bring the African-based conga drum...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
