Reviews
Jamaica: Rhythm & Blues 1956-1961
The years 1956 and 1961 brought two key events to Jamaica’s musical history. The dates also provide well chosen bookends...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985
Africa collided with Latin America in myriad ways, from the complex rhythms of son, the Yoruba pulse underpinning cumbia to...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds
Conjunto is the music of working class Mexican Americans across the south-west. Los Texmaniacs are four Texan veterans who have...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Groupe Folklorique Martiniquais
Singer-songwriter Loulou Boislaville led the Groupe Folklorique Martiniquais from 1966 to 1981, building on the multi-genre ensemble’s already substantial success...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Our Lady of the Tall Trees
From the first track to the last, the sonorous twang and thrum of Cahalen Morrison & Eli West’s music is...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Oásis de Bethânia
Like her brother, Caetano Veloso, Bethânia was a key player in the musical revolution which swept through late 60s and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Future Sounds of Buenos Aires
It been several years – six, in fact – since ZZK Records first started to whip the cool kids into...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Jorge: The Definitive Collection
No Brazilian singer has chronicled the unpretentious, good life of simple, working-class Rio more faithfully than Jorge Ben. For almost...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Between The Ditches
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Each year, Reverend J Peyton and his blues trio [pictured below] set out from their home in the heart of...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Bluegrass
A handful of engaging selections punctuate the 13 tracks on this album, Putumayo’s initial venture into the bluegrass realm. David...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
