Reviews
Uptown Top Ranking
VP Records here present a comprehensive guide to Byron Lee, a bandleader and producer whose appeal grew from the tastes...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Colors of Brazil
One of Brazil's most unclassifiable bands is back with a major international release. Bringing together Cabruêra's two most recent albums...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Roll Up the Night Sky
Canadian Dana Sipos has one of those voices usually described in words such as ethereal, ghostly, pastoral or ‘almost identical...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
La Ruta de la Pantera
Having borrowed their album's title (‘The Way of the Panther’) from a Marvel comic, and previously reinvented Henry Mancini's Pink...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Elixir
Ola Fresca is, as their name insists, a ‘fresh wave’ from Brooklyn. The band's singer, songwriter and arranger, José Conde,...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Domestic Eccentric
As the title suggests, Domestic Eccentric is mostly a record about home and family. Fittingly enough, it was recorded at...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
El Rebusque
Mama Julia y los Sonidos Ambulantes
Since La Mojarra Eléctrica disappeared on indefinite hiatus, the world has been calling out for a new group to combine...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Jamaica is the Place to Go
This two-CD set follows 2013's Mento, Not Calypso! by further exploring the 1950s mento scene. Often overshadowed by Trinidad's golden...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Big Box of Afrosound
This eminently collectable box set of ten vinyl 7” singles will be a boon to any DJ overburdened by the...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
