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Review of Wake Up Sinners

Wake Up Sinners

The Dirt Daubers

Colonel Knowledge

Rating: ★★

The Dirt Daubers are a west Kentucky trio who try to put a fresh spin on mountain music/old-time music. Vocals...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Review of Tango Tango de Norte a Sur

Tango Tango de Norte a Sur

Las Chicas del

ARC Music

Rating: ★

We hear lots of rumours about Finland’s tango obsession but rarely get to hear its music. This innovative release features...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Review of Nuevo Chamber

Nuevo Chamber

The Musical Art Quintet

Classical Revolution Records

Rating: ★★★

Born out of classical ‘jam sessions’ at a café in metropolitan San Francisco, The Musical Art Quintet developed their stylish...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Review of Salida de Emergencia

Salida de Emergencia

Fleurs Noires

Milan

Rating: ★★★

Women have always been central to tango – as whores, drunks, Oedipal mothers, girlfriends and social climbers. On the performing...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Review of Romancing the Past

Romancing the Past

Los Tres Reyes

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★

Urbane male voices, in unison, constitute a vital force in Latin American folk music. In Mexico, one of the most...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Review of Meet Me at Mardi Gras

Meet Me at Mardi Gras

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Rounder

Rating: ★★★

Mardi Gras in Louisiana is one of the world’s great public celebrations. The Cajuns have their own country Mardi Gras...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Review of Recanto

Recanto

Gal Costa

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

Almost half a century after Gal Costa first teamed up with him, Recanto sees Caetano Veloso taking her back to...

Reviewed in issue July/2012

Review of YO

YO

Roberto Fonseca

Top of the World

Jazz Village/Harmonia Mundi

Rating: ★★★★

A visual and aural treat from Havana's proudest son, who lays himself bare on YO (that's ‘I’ in Spanish) with...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Review of Tangos Pendientes

Tangos Pendientes

Débora Russ

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★

The fourth track on this album is ‘Jacinto Chiclana’, a poem by Jorge Luis Borges. Its music is folksy and...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Review of La Onda Vampi

La Onda Vampi

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

Vampisoul really knows how to mash it up. The Spanish label, celebrating a decade this year, has to be one...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

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