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Review of El Canto del Viento

El Canto del Viento

Amando Risueño

Nuevo Mundo

Rating: ★★★

In 1965, the celebrated Argentinian folk artist Atahualpa Yupanqui published El Canto del Viento, a collection of proems that touched...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Tiempos Buenos

Tiempos Buenos

Grupo Rebolú

Grupo Rebolú

Rating: ★★★★

Grupo Rebolú are the best AfroColombian ensemble working out of New York City, and arguably the best of their kind...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Nickel Creek/This Side/Why Should the Fire Die?

Nickel Creek/This Side/Why Should the Fire Die?

Nickel Creek

Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

When Nickel Creek formed in 1989, siblings Sara and Sean Watkins and Chris Thile were not yet 13 years old....

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Brazil: Samba, Bossa and Beyond!

Brazil: Samba, Bossa and Beyond!

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Putumayo World Music

Rating: ★★

There is no shortage of Brazilian music compilations out there. So when you put a new one on the market,...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of As Long as Songbirds Sing

As Long as Songbirds Sing

Kitchman/Schmidt

Kitchman/Schmidt

Rating: ★★

Since meeting, literally on stage, at a late-night jam session in London’s West End, jazz and folk guitarist James Kitchman...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Viento y Tiempo: Live at Blue Note Tokyo

Viento y Tiempo: Live at Blue Note Tokyo

Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Aymée Nuviola

Top Stop Music

Rating: ★★★★

In August 2019 the award-winning Cuban artists Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Aymée Nuviola teamed up to play six sold-out nights at...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Review of Song to a Refugee

Song to a Refugee

Diana Jones

Proper Records

Rating: ★★★★

After five fine albums of Appalachian-tinged folk songs, Diana Jones felt too devastated by the horror of Trump’s election to...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Review of Oye Mujer

Oye Mujer

Ladama

Top of the World

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

Pan-American musicians have got more chance of creating peace and prosperity than the region’s politicians. Perhaps the latter can call...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Review of Mente

Mente

Thiago Nassif

Gearbox

Rating: ★★★★

The Brazilian multi­instrumentalist Thiago Nassif has been active for around a decade, switching scenes from São Paulo to Rio de...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Review of En Español

En Español

The Mavericks

Mono Mundo

Rating: ★★★

In the US, the Mavericks are packaged to the mainstream as a country band. They can play anything, from rockabilly...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

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