There’s a good chance you might not have heard of the guitarist, vocalist and composer of these songs – Soli. Having a one-word name that also...
Think about Brasilian music played by Brasilians – even before a single note is played – and the chances are you’ll expect something magical in the...
Music has an ephemeral quality that makes it experientially real only in the present. For instance, once music has passed it becomes a cherished memory that...
One of the most exciting discoveries to make in music – something like excavating something you never knew existed in archeology – is a new recording...
The word “amazones” (plural form of the word “amazone”) is usually associated with South America and the peoples – principally Brasilian (but also from the Peruvian...
James Fernando – The Lonely Sailor; Untold; The Journey Within; Ancient Lullaby; Troubled Waters; The Other Side of the Storm; The Last Sunset at Sea; Where...
Perhaps the greatest gift a father as famous as Egberto Gismonti could have bestowed upon his children would be a questing one; that boundless yen to...
The Scottish guitarist Simon Thacker is a musical alchemist. Thus, rightfully he and his art is evocative of a musical Merlin-like figure roaming mystical places in...
Almost unique among contemporary guitar virtuosos Itamar Erez is a musician who is an equally gifted composer who strives to make music of a consciously all-encompassing...
Haiti and New Orleans have an extremely deep cultural connection which, in turn, arises from its historical one. Both places saw an infusion of “freedom” when...
Sylvain Leroux is, without a shadow of a doubt, a major musician. He is also an activist who is deeply committed to preserving the music of...
This fascinating disc, Voy, earned Nella the Best New Artist Award at the 2019 Latin Grammys. It’s no wonder that the recording enabled her to earn...
The arrival of the album Wawu by Deline Briscoe is guaranteed to quicken any reviewer’s pulse. The unusual vocalist and songwriter has bolstered an already extraordinary...
If the world of Argentinean music epitomised by its (Argentina’s) sensual tango was propelled into the future by Alberto Ginastera, Osvaldo Pugliese, Lalo Schifrin, Horacio Salgán,...
Listening to the drone of the tanpura that announces the first track on disc one of this package by the Go:Organic Orchestra with the Brooklyn Raga...
Ashkan Behzadi – Crescita Plastica; David Bird – Bezier; Apocrypha; Clara Iannotta – Limun andPlay is Maya Bennardo: vn and Hannah Levinson: va In a rather...
Jane Antonia Cornish – Seascapes: Seascapes I, Seascapes II, Seascapes III, Seascapes Epilogue; Yügen; Drift The composer Jane Antonia Cornish is an astonishing talent. The scope...
The fact that the English-speaking world knows little or nothing about Brasil and its artists is borne out by this remarkable recording by the San-São Trio...
The composer trumpeter, pianist and – now we know – manipulator of a myriad electronic boards, Martin Loyato, has delivered his magnum opus in Cinematic Tales,...
The Garifuna story began when the cultural topography of the Caribs of St Vincent collided with that of the West Africans sometime after 1675. Through the...
