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Review of Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-83

Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-83

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★

Mexican sonidero (DJ) Gabriel Dueñez had been playing a set for five or six hours when his turntable began overheating...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Review of Bem-Vinda Amizade

Bem-Vinda Amizade

Jorge Ben

Munster Records

Rating: ★★★

Even those with only a passing interest in Brazilian music will have heard the song ‘Mas Que Nada’ – a...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Wganda Kenya

Wganda Kenya

Wganda Kenya

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

Wganda Kenya were a studio group of Colombian musicians created to offer a homegrown alternative to the increasingly-popular African and...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Never Slow Down

Never Slow Down

The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

In the fall of 2019, when The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys made their Grand Ole Opry debut, their third album, Toil,...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1

The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1

Cleveland Watkiss

Cdubya Music/CDUB 1

Rating: ★★

Cleveland Watkiss is known both as a gifted jazz vocalist and a founding member of Metalheadz – the drum’n’bass outfit...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Esquina de São Paulo

Esquina de São Paulo

Danilo Brito & João Luiz

Zoho Music

Rating: ★★★★

Latin Grammy-nominated classical guitarist João Luiz and composer and mandolin player Danilo Brito have shared a friendship for nearly 20...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Where to Now?

Where to Now?

Track Dogs

Mondegreen Records

Rating: ★★

Track Dogs, comprising Garrett Wall, Dave Mooney, Howard Brown and Robbie K Jones – two Irishmen, an Englishman and an...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of La Vie de Riley

La Vie de Riley

The Riley Family Band

Top of the World

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★★

They say, ‘the family that plays together, stays together.’ At the home of Cajun accordionist, fiddler and songwriter Steve Riley...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Pan Atlantico

Pan Atlantico

Diana Baroni & Simon Drappier

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★

Pan Atlantico is a powerful and deeply-moving album that fuses Latin, North American and European styles. Performed live, the sound...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of El Mirador

El Mirador

Calexico

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

Since their first album 25 years ago, the duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino have carved out a niche...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

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