Reviews
Casa de Trova: Cuba 50s
A decade or so ago, this album would have been one among dozens. With the decline of the CD trade,...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Tambutronic
Meaning ‘stories and drums’ in Papiamento, the native language of the Dutch Caribbean, the five- piece Kuenta i Tambú were...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
E-and’a
At the risk of sounding like a reverse snob, it seems to be a rule of thumb now that if...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Batuk Freak
A mixture of canny production, assured rapping and tough- to-extricate earworms make this debut album from Brazilian rapper Karol Conka...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
With this latest entry in his Adventure Music catalogue, mandolin maestro Mike Marshall and the renowned Turtle Island Quartet have...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Soneros de Siempre
Not least among the multitude of treats lavished upon participants on the last Songlines Music Travel tour of Cuba was...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
The Railsplitters
The Railsplitters’ eponymous, fan-financed debut isn't going to set the bluegrass world on fire. But anyone can appreciate the smart...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Fazendo as Pazes com o Swing
Before rock'n'roll there was swing – with big bands fronted by musicians like Benny Goodman introducing African-American syncopation and jazz...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Haiti Direct – Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978
What a truly wonderful collection of music there is on Strut's latest outing into the musical unknown! While Cuban and...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
De Platino
This Belgium-based band take their name (meaning ‘the bodysnatcher’) from a novel by Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguay's most celebrated fiction-writer....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
