Reviews
Pan Atlantico
Pan Atlantico is a powerful and deeply-moving album that fuses Latin, North American and European styles. Performed live, the sound...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2022
Sonche Atlántico
This short, finely-crafted album by Galician multi-instrumentalist Pancho Álvarez – his fourth solo record – reveals an artist on fine...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2012
PAN Project
Taking their name from the Korean music-storytelling tradition pansori – meaning ‘to gather’ or ‘come together’ – PAN Project is a...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2022
What Pan Did for Me
Visitors to Port of Spain's legendary carnival will recall Panorama, the steel band competition at which bands – some up...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: November/2015
Atlântico
Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021
Melting Pot
If you think of steel pan music as nothing but boring standards by a bored-looking busker, then Melting Pot will...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Songs Beyond Words
Performing together for more than 20 years, the husband and wife team of vocalist Mia Hsieh, a Taiwan native, and...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: March/2021
Con-Fusion
This steel pan drummer from Trinidad was one of the founding members of cult the outfits 20th Century Steel Band...
Reviewed by John M Gomez in issue: June/2013
Expansions
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band are a German steel pan band that have earned a reputation for giving a Trinidad...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: October/2021
