Reviews
United States of Africa
For over 15 years, Luciano (aka Jepther McClymont) has been the most consistent roots singer in Jamaica, releasing a steady...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
Dog With A Rope
Quantic Presenta: Flowering Inferno
He might be plain old Will Holland to the authorities, but the man known as Quantic has burned his stage...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
Zoot!
The prose of their website links this new sextet from Prince Edward Island with ‘a time when pleasure usurped profession...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
El Rey: A Man and His Music
To test-drive this new retrospective of Tito Puente's long relationship with Fania's sister Tico label, crank up the first track...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
Rising Sun Melodies
Ola Belle Reed was born in 1916, in rural Appalachia and grew up in a family so poor they didn't...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
More Miles Than Money: the Soundtrack to Garth Cartwright's Book
Garth Cartwright is fast becoming one of the most intriguing and readable music writers in the UK, his upbringing in...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
Sin Rumba No Hay Son
Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro
Does any other country of musicians celebrate the history of their music and its incredible creativity quite like the Cubans...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
Seu Jorge and Almaz
This covers album is a radical departure from a standard Seu Jorge samba-funk album and those expecting the swinging, soulful...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
Timeless
Bob Wills, the arguable progenitor of Western Swing, made effective use of three fiddlers (Wills himself being one of them,...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira!
From the CDs released outside Brazil, people would be forgiven for thinking that today's Brazilians listen to nothing but 70s...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010
