Reviews
¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz
A coastal offshoot of the Mexican folk music scene that burst into life during the 1970s, son jarocho has roots...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Ideal
With a classical and jazz background, Catherine Bent, a Berklee professor of music, has harnessed her virtuoso cello playing to...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Live from the Art Farm
If it weren’t for the enthused reaction of the small audience gathered before The Fretless in the Art Farm, a...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris
The impressive scholarship and production nous of the Atlanta-based Dust-to-Digital label is here applied to a multimedia collection of the...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Mexico Mágico Cosmico
This re-release of a 1981 Mexican government-sponsored music project is a curiosity in many ways. It is an album that...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Bienaventuranza
In recent years, the world of electronic music in Latin America has moved from revitalising cumbia with urgent beats to...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Lucky Hand
Dawson is a virtuoso guitarist who has quietly put out albums of strong, bluesy playing via various projects over the...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
So Calypso!
After the triumph of 2016's Far From Home, which went platinum in France and won her the Artist of the...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Taurina
Not for nothing is Anelis Assumpção the daughter of the peculiar and rebellious Brazilian musician Itamar Assumpção. Itamar took part...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Queen City Jubilee
Seriously solid traditional bluegrass music, freshly interpreted and rendered with passion and precision for 21st-century ears; that's the formula used...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
