Reviews
Brésil: Le Chant du Nordeste 1928-1950
With Brazil's north-east so strongly identified in recent decades with the whirl of forró, you'd be forgiven for thinking its...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Oro
Grammy-nominated darlings Choc Quib Town are the real deal: a trio who preserve the heritage of such traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Mango Mangüé
The Vampisoul label is a gem, constantly unearthing surprises, and this fabulous collection rediscovers the Cuban singer– composer El Gran...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Vital
Tango is one of those realms where Songlines’ already wide-open world music remit frequently brushes dandruff-speckled shoulders with the classical...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
El Gaucho
El Gaucho is the superbly atmospheric soundtrack to Andrés Jarach's documentary road movie about Andrés Retamal, a taciturn Argentinian horse–...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Maiteí America: Harps of Paraguay
Most of the music here consists of harps and nothing else. Yet this album is a little beauty. Twenty of...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Todo Transito
Just once in a while an album arrives in unexpected fashion and you hear a new original voice. It’s rare...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Corridos of the Chicano Movement
’To my mother I’m a Mexican, by destiny I’m American/I speak Spanish and English, I’m from the noble golden race’....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Back to Peru Vol II
Any illusion that it was only the US, UK and parts of Europe that properly embraced rock in the 1960s...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
All In One
Bebel Gilberto clearly craves crossover success. She's made a decent fist of achieving it too, with 2000's electronica–enhanced Tanto Tempo...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
