Reviews
Guasá, Cununo y Marimba: Afro-Colombian Music from the Pacific Coast
Afro-Colombian music has long been overlooked – largely down to an institutional and classist bias that, it has to be...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Love and Leave You
As the title suggests 100 Mile House's second album is all about relationships and loss. Love and Leave You is...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
La Próxima Traición
Tango has always reflected society – especially Buenos Aires’ urban society, but also, at various times, that of Paris, New...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Turn Up the Heat
Stalwart reggae promoters Reggae Roast release a killer selection of dancehall on renowned label Trojan Reloaded. Turn Up the Heat...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Basta de Música
Context can be an important factor when it comes to music. Buscaglía's parents were part of a scene that helped...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Chicago Barn Dance
It's safe to say that every country music fan has heard of the Grand Ole Opry. What few people know...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
From Radio 4's Tweet of the Day to Sam Lee's nocturna nightingale sessions, ornithology has gone mainstream. Sadly, the renewed...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Da Natureza das Coisas
Choro, the popular urban music that originated in Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century, translates into English as ‘lament.’...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan & Edgar Meyer
It's almost a decade since the adventurous classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with bluegrass fiddle/banjo player Stuart Duncan, double...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton
This wonderful recording of Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton performing in New York in 1962 begins with a short, sweet...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
