Reviews

Grenades

Kaia Kater

Kaia Kater's 2016 debut album Nine Pin won the young Canadian banjo player and singer-songwriter plenty of attention – including...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Some People I Know

The Brother Brothers

It should perhaps come as no surprise that Brooklyn-based identical twins Adam and David Moss, who both have their own...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Horizons

Vishtèn

Vishtèn comprises multi-instrumentalists Emmanuelle and Pastelle LeBlanc from the Evangeline Region of Prince Edward Island, home to a Francophone Acadian...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

OK OK OK

Gilberto Gil

Having released 60 albums since 1967, Afro-Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil shows no sign of slowing down with his latest project,...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Reckless Saints

Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield

There's something retro and regional about Kim Mayfield's fluffy girlish vocals that pleasantly invokes the late and legendary Tammy Wynette,...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Exaltação

Marcos D Project

If you're the sort of person who likes to know what they're getting into ahead of time then this is...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Revolucionario

Quinteto Astor Piazzolla

As well as his scintillating signature sound, at least a dozen sublime albums, and hundreds of compositions, Astor Piazzolla bequeathed...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Boue, Boucane, et Bouteilles

Jourdan Thibodeaux et Les Rodailleurs

The good times are rolling with beaucoup Cajun-Creole chemistry on Boue, Boucane, et Bouteilles (Mud, Smoke and Bottles), the debut...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

The Upsetter/Scratch The Upsetter Again

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Upsetters

While this single CD containing two albums is credited to ‘The Upsetter’, the man behind the magic across the 24...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Toquinho

Toquinho

Now in his early 70s, Antônio Pecci Filho, aka Toquinho, is still popular in his native Brazil. He possesses some...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019