Reviews

Cancún

Calle Sur

Despite this being a 20th-anniversary album you can be forgiven for not knowing much about the band Calle Sur –...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Astor Piazzolla: Aconcagua/Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Martynas Levickis

There are too many random, unfocused, greatest hits cover albums of Piazzolla’s work, so it’s good to see a record...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Cantos

Okonkolo

Capturing the slow-burning fervour of an Afro-Cuban bembe – the rituals paying homage to the orisha deities of the Santería...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Manduka

Manduka

That Alexandre Manuel Thiago de Mello (aka Manduka), born in Petrópolis, a city in the south-east Brazil, isn’t a bigger...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974

Manzanita y Su Conjunto

Somewhere along the way cumbia has become the term used to describe Latin America’s golden age of tropical, danceable music,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Ástor 2020, La Historia Continúa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This year marks 100 years since Astor Piazzolla’s birth in Mar del Plata, Argentina. This album is a timely homage...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Borrowed Time

Joe Troop

Appalachian banjo and fiddle player, bilingual singer-songwriter and activist à la Pete Seeger, Joe Troop calls this his ‘dream album.’...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Sovereign

Chris Murphy

Beginning with ‘Halfway Around the World’, this gathering of sidemen to the stars (British art-rocker Brian Auger, Elvis Costello drummer...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Encore

Joseph Spence

Encore was recorded in 1965 at a live concert in New York and during informal home-recording sessions by producer Peter...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The premise of Industrial Strength Bluegrass is an intriguing one. In the 1950s and 60s, destitute migrants from the backwoods...

Reviewed in issue October/2021