Over the past few years Madrid-based label Galileo has been licensing a number of talented and distinctive Argentinian tango bands...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
The band might not agree, nor perhaps the nation of France – but this really is a fabulous French pop...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Brazilians have an expansive metaphor for their football team’s enduring 50s icon. Wing legend Manuel Francisco dos Santos, aka Garrincha,...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
That the author of the liner notes, in archetypal 1970s African self¬empowerment fashion, signs himself ‘Super Star’ is as likely...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Exile, and the pain of separation, have always inspired some great music and this cleverly conceived and refreshingly original compilation,...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
French accordionist Richard Galliano knocks out an album or two every year and tours widely as a sort of ambassador...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Dressed in griot-chic and wielding his gimbri like a Fender Stratocaster, Nuru Kane comes on like a trans-Saharan cross between...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
‘This is the new Africa,’ declares the liner notes. But it isn't really. House music has been thudding out of...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
The many former colleagues and fans of the late bluegrass fiddler, banjoist and songwriter John Hartford needed no persuading to...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
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