Reviews
Doctor Bird
Now in his mid 70s, the Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian the Mighty Sparrow, still performs, drawing attention to social justice...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
This Land is Your Land
With a generous 50 tracks, this release is as good a retrospective as it is possible to squeeze onto two...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
The Beginners Guide to Timba
Not one, not two but three CDs destined to send lovers of timba – that hard-edged derivative of Cuban salsa...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Live in France
Who would ever have thought that two Mexican guitarists who busked the streets of Dublin would turn out to be...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Sud de la Louisiane
A pared-down version of the legendary Foghorn Stringband, this trio of heel-kicking musicians from Portland, Oregon, play mandolin, banjo, fiddle,...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Cumbia! Bestial
This thrilling compilation offers a truly cross-continental perspective, bringing together cutting-edge remixes of cumbia by DJs from Bogotá, Mexico and...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Africa Caribe
To inject some life into their catalogue of 4,000 albums, the current owners of Fania Records turned over master tapes...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Tell My Sister
They were the unlikeliest of pop stars: two sisters from the ancient Laurentian moun¬tain range north¬west of Montreal, plain-spoken homebodies...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Take The High Road
There’s an obvious parallel between the Blind Boys of Alabama and South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Both are veteran vocal...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
Noche de Carnaval
You have to give Juan Carlos Cáceres credit for productivity – and for effort. No sooner have we let one...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011
