Reviews
Dakar-Kingston
Baaba Maal claimed many years ago that the reggae rhythm was derived from the hypnotic, centuries-old sound of West African...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Café Musique
A kind of one-man Cape Verdean chamber group, Rufino Almeida (also known as Bau), has plucked a steady course through...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Secretly Famous
This is a Western¬er’s image of Cairo and its mythical fleshpots: snake-charmer music for young Euro-clubbers en route to the...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Ar De Nha Terra
A veteran singer-songwriter old enough to remember independence from Portugal, Paris-based Cape Verdean Jorge Humberto has a reputation as a...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Chants Berbères de Kabylie
In the middle part of the 20th century, pioneering poets, writers and singers rediscovered micro¬cosms of traditional culture that had...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Someone’s got to Pay
Anyone who’s seen this four-piece country band live will have been impressed by the way they manage to make serious...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Banda Dois
Having quit formal politics and swapped President Lula and Brasilia for a return to the international circuit, Gil presents us...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
Greatest Hits
This is a compilation to embrace, a beautifully varied album of relatively unknown material by veteran Cuban singer Omara Portuondo....
Reviewed in issue July/2010
The Afrosound of Colombia Volume 1
Kicking off with a funky, yelping dance track that makes you wonder whether James Brown actually spent the 60s and...
Reviewed in issue July/2010
