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Review of Far From Home

Far From Home

Calypso Rose

Top of the World

Because Music

Rating: ★★★★★

From the opening, jump-up moments of ‘Abatina’, a crisp, smart updating of a famous traditional rhythm, ‘Kalenda March’, it is...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Sobre Crianças, Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa…

Sobre Crianças, Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa…

Emicida

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★

Though Criolo has stolen the limelight as the voice of those living on Brazil's periphery, Emicida's career has followed a...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Arthur Verocai

Arthur Verocai

Arthur Verocai

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

The eponymous debut album of Arthur Verocai, originally released in 1972, is one of those albums that history quickly forgot...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Estación Edén: Guitar Works from Uruguay II

Estación Edén: Guitar Works from Uruguay II

Gustavo Pazos Conde

Saphrane Records

Rating: ★★★★

While tango jostles with rock nacional and popular dance rhythms like cumbia in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, once you escape...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Family, Friends & Heroes

Family, Friends & Heroes

Frank Solivan

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

This 14-track extended family reunion kicks off with Frank Solivan and Del McCoury harmonising on a twanged-up version of Roy...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Ema Yazurlo y Quilombo Sonoro

Ema Yazurlo y Quilombo Sonoro

Ema Yazurlo y Quilombo Sonoro

Agualoca

Rating: ★★★

Buenos Aires has long been a special musical melting pot, with the influences of Europe and the US vying with...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Rey Loj

Rey Loj

Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna

Petit Indie

Rating: ★★★★

Chilean singer-songwriter Pascuala Ilabaca dances lightly around Chilean musical styles, mixing them with Indian forms she picked up while studying...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Tropix

Tropix

Céu

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's easy to forget how much of a revelation Céu was when she released her self-titled debut in 2005. Seductive...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Santana IV

Santana IV

Santana

Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★★

The ground-breaking Afro-Latin rock fusion of Carlos Santana and his band set alight the 1969 Woodstock festival and opened the...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of The Happiest Man in the World

The Happiest Man in the World

Eric Bibb & North Country Far & Danny Thompson

Dixie Frog Records

Rating: ★★★

Eric Bibb refutes the stereotype of the bluesman as bad-ass drunkard who would sell his soul so to play music...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

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