Reviews

Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Son Palenque

South and Central America are dotted with communities made up of the descendants of African slaves who escaped their oppressors....

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Far Out Presents Brazilian Bass

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Often electronic music from Brazil is represented either by the laid-back qualities of electronic bossa nova or the rattling beats...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Mañana

Amanda Martinez

It's probably fair to say there aren’t that many famous Mexican-Canadian singer-songwriters out there and certainly none of the stature...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Compay Son con Pasión

Grupo Compay Segundo

At first glance this CD looks off-putting: the sleeve being reminiscent of a flier taped to the desk of a...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Salvadora Robot

Meridian Brothers

Even in Colombia, Meridian Brothers are a band who divide opinion. Are they a parody of Colombian music or a...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Ocupai

Bixiga 70

In 2011, Afrobeat chronicler Dr Carlos Moore predicted that Brazil would be ‘the next Afrobeat world capital.’ Exaggerated though it...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Bless Up

Ernest Ranglin & Avila

The veteran Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin helped to give birth to reggae, playing on early recordings that defined the genre...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Get a Life

The Warren G Hardings

Warren G Harding is an odd name to choose for a band name. History regards that particular US president as...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

May

The Sweet Lowdown

You may well have seen and enjoyed The Sweet Lowdown on their first UK tour recently. They’re an award-winning, all-female...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Imaginarium

Clarice Assad

As the daughter of one of the Assad Brothers, a world-beating Brazilian classical guitar duo, it's perhaps no surprise that...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014