Reviews
Bright Land
The San Francisco-based quintet the Crooked Jades rival the Carolina Chocolate Drops as the foremost proponents of pre-radio old-time rural...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Brasilianos 3
With the other albums in this series, it was hard not to be impressed by the sheer virtuosity on offer...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia
One of the oddities of Brazilian music is the lack of strong, assertive male vocals: the kind of voices that...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Accidente de Tango
Electronic tango is now dustier than any ancient 78 by Carlos Gardel. The form had its moment, and its high...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Desesperanza
In Bogotá’s alternative music scene Meridian Brothers are quite rightly hailed as one of Colombia’s most interesting and enjoyable musical...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
¡Saoco! The Bomba and Plena Explosion in Puerto Rico 1954-1966
Decades before Ricky Martin and reggaeton, the little island of Puerto Rico bounced its booty to the Afro-Spanish rhythms of...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
A Vontade Superstar
The Sao Paulo music scene is currently thriving, with artists such as Criolo, Tulipa and Céu getting international releases and...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Tanguísimo
This nine-CD Piazzolla bumper-pack gathers in one accordion-like sleeve a significant sampling of the recordings Astor Piazzolla made with various...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
The God Who Devastates Also Cures
On each of Lucas Santtana's previous five albums there was a concept that the Brazilian singer-songwriter set himself, a way...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
