Reviews
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia
The ever-growing thirst for Peruvian cumbia (sometimes known as chicha) is showing no signs of being satiated. What started in...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
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 in issue November/2015
Tunes from the North, Songs from the South
Karrnnel Sawitsky & Daniel Koulack
Anyone with an ear for the deeply complex and exquisitely subtle reciprocation between the banjo and fiddle will be dazzled...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Tradición, Arte y Pasión
Mariachi los Camperos de Nati Cano
Mariachi music is a litmus test of inner joy; people who don’t like it probably don’t like beer, sex or...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Samba
Yet another compilation of new Brazilian music, this time from self-confessed ‘hoary compiler’ John Armstrong, who concedes the psychedelic samba...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Terre Rouge
At the opening weekend of this summer's Mendocino Music Festival in California, two bands from eastern Canada made an interesting...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Salsa de la Buena!
Given the quality of the musicianship in evidence here, Toronto's salsa scene must be flourishing. No doubt conceived in the...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Fanfare Latino Roots
If the French name of this largely Colombian brass banda seems odd, you should know they’re a group of more...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
World of Pixinguinha
Hamilton de Holanda is a fantastically accomplished musician. As a player of the bandolin (15-stringed lute) there are probably none...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
