Reviews
Nyanza
This is the third album from this Kenya-London collaboration and it's the most satisfying and varied set they’ve created yet....
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: November/2015
Portraits 30
Polish Radio's series of releases called MuzykaZródel (Sources of Polish Folk Music) are a superb introduction to the country's regional...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2015
An Anthology of Tibetan Folk Songs
These present a polished selection of Tibetan songs from an experienced singer, who also plays all the accompanying instruments. Namgyal...
Reviewed by Anna Morcom in issue: November/2015
Resistance
The hard-hitting sextet from Ottawa struts its stuff again. It may be the band's first all-vocal album and there may...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Samba
Yet another compilation of new Brazilian music, this time from self-confessed ‘hoary compiler’ John Armstrong, who concedes the psychedelic samba...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: November/2015
Terre Rouge
At the opening weekend of this summer's Mendocino Music Festival in California, two bands from eastern Canada made an interesting...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: November/2015
Salsa de la Buena!
Given the quality of the musicianship in evidence here, Toronto's salsa scene must be flourishing. No doubt conceived in the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
Fanfare Latino Roots
If the French name of this largely Colombian brass banda seems odd, you should know they’re a group of more...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2015
Invocación
Some aficionados of Latin American music can listen to the swaying rhythms of salsa or the rippling beats of son...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2015
