Kiki Valera is one of Cuba's foremost cuatro-guitar virtuosos and a fourth-generation member of La Familia Valera Miranda, the pioneers renowned for more than a century as creators of Eastern Cuba's Son tradition. Over the last century, this style of traditional Cuban...

Multi-instrumentalist and singer David Udell first came to prominence in the art-rock band Wax Theatricks before joining Walter Whitney and Carl Weingarten in Delay Tactics in time for their 1984 album ‘Any Questions?’. He has kept busy since then, playing in multiple...

Here we have the third re-recording of Sepultura music by Max and Igor Cavalera, this time revisiting the second full-length album, originally released in 1987. Again we have improved artwork alongside the newly recorded tracks which follows the same sequence as the...

There is no doubt this debut album is going to grab a lot of attention due to who is involved, but once the hype is past people will just keep listening to the music and having a load of fun as here we have a belting metal album with real balls combined with...

I don’t know much about music from Africa, but when I heard that Togolese metal crossover band Arka'n Asrafokor were about to release their second album (their debut for RPM), I knew I had to find out more. Sepultura were the first to really get the local...

‘Rapsodia Mexicana’ (Mexican Rhapsody) is the second solo album by young pianist Argentina Durán. It brings together a selection of works by Mexican composers from different eras and styles, including romantic, nationalist, and impressionist pieces featuring works by...

A few years ago I was fortunate enough to catch South For Winter for some dates on their NZ tour, since when I have followed their career with interest. New Zealander Nick Stone and Coloradan Dani Cichon first met in 2014 when they were both volunteering in Peru, even...

John Ambrosini is a jazz pianist, pop-inspired singer, composer, and bandleader who is quite active in the New York City area. Here we find him providing versions of some of his favourite pop and rock classics, along with two originals. Although most of these are the...

Back in the late Seventies, when I was studying for exams, I liked to play music as a background but found if I listened to my own albums I got easily distracted, so instead used to raid my dad’s jazz collection instead. That was where I first came across the mighty...

Here we have the latest release from Intelligent Music Project, a project which is always indicated as being Bulgarian given that the person behind it Milen Vrabevski MD, who composes many of the songs. Twice they have appeared on the Eurovision Song Contest, even...