Reviews

HaitaNola

Lakou Mizik

Haitian roots revival outfit Lakou Mizik prompted double takes with their 2016 debut album Wa Di Do, a work that...

Reviewed in issue December/2019

Sonocardiogram

Daymé Arocena

Fronting big bands by 14, Cuban singer Daymé Arocena is now 27 and releasing her fourth album for Brownswood Recordings,...

Reviewed in issue December/2019

Historia Natural

Los Pirañas

The three members of Colombia's Los Pirañas have been making music together in various guises since the late 90s and...

Reviewed in issue December/2019

El Carretero

Guillermo Portabales

It's not often that an album comes along with an opening track so compelling it begs several listens before you...

Reviewed in issue December/2019

Esencia

Mariachi Herencia de México

Studio-recorded mariachi needs to be kept loose and as live-sounding as possible to work at all. With its female and...

Reviewed in issue December/2019

O Céu É Velho Há Muito Tempo

Lucas Santtana

Starting of with a ringing guitar chord that seems to signal dread, the latest from Brazil's Lucas Santtana is inextricably...

Reviewed in issue December/2019

Almadura

iLe

From the of, it's clear that Puerto Rican Ileana Cabra (aka iLe) is carrying much anger and frustration on her...

Reviewed in issue December/2019

ABAN

The Garifuna Collective

Touring around Europe and the US heavily in recent months, the Garifuna gang from Belize sound much more traditionally folkloric...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Kosher Style

Michael Winograd

This is a splendid celebration of brash, Brooklyn, big-band klezmer revelling in the retro flavour of the style. Many of...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

The Warrior Women of Afro-Peruvian Music

Just Play Peru

Working this time in Lima, Peru, this album from the Just Play project – accompanied by a webisode for each...

Reviewed in issue November/2019