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...
If you haven’t heard of Claudia Villela yet, this is an excellent disc to make her acquaintance. And if you’ve heard her before, then you’ll find...
Elliot Cole – Roda – Movement I: Turning; Roda – Movement II: Dreaming; Roda – Movement III Spinning; Roda – Movement IV: Singing (2017); Alexis C....
Eric Sessler – Dreams from Life Awake I: Reverberation-Exploration-Flow; Dreams from Life Awake II: Tenderness-Love-Warmth; Dreams from Life Awake III Evolution-Growth-Transformation; Dreams from Life Awake IV:...
Every song tells a story on Echo Chamber by the inimitable Gino Sitson. Although he is multi-lingual, Mr Sitson sings his stories – in the grand...
Doors: Three Poems by W.S. Merwin for soprano, clarinet, cello and piano; Questions of Travel: for clarinet, cello and piano; To Paradise for Onions: for clarinet...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 – Overture; The Beatles 2: Yesterday; Fritz Kreisler 3: Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of...
First there was life; then death and then life again. Perhaps that’s because human have a natural tendency to aspire...
If a record label – or imprint – were to be considered an “unfillable” library in the sense that the...
Ana-Marija Markovina: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Complete Works for Piano [Solo] Few composers – artistic geniuses at that – have...
There has been a plethora of re-issued recordings in the past few years, but none quite like this on –...
The brilliant young guitarist Plínio Fernandes proves once again [although he probably did not set out to do so] that...
Mozart Sonatas K.282, K.283, K.310, K.331, K332, K545 & K576 If classical radio stations [in Toronto, at any rate] are...
Nella Rojas, or simply Nella, is a new voice hailing from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita Born in Venezuela, Nella...
Rail Band of the Train Station Hotel, Ambassadeurs of the Motel of Bamako, Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and lately, Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux: so many bands that...
His sugarcane-sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and powerful guitar riffs, relinquish a conventional stereotype that exemplifies much of the Latin music...