Reviews
Salsa de la Buena!
Given the quality of the musicianship in evidence here, Toronto's salsa scene must be flourishing. No doubt conceived in the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
Fanfare Latino Roots
If the French name of this largely Colombian brass banda seems odd, you should know they’re a group of more...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2015
Invocación
Some aficionados of Latin American music can listen to the swaying rhythms of salsa or the rippling beats of son...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2015
World of Pixinguinha
Hamilton de Holanda is a fantastically accomplished musician. As a player of the bandolin (15-stringed lute) there are probably none...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2015
Not One but Another
Andy Kirkham is a British, Norfolk-based folk guitar player and songwriter. His fifth solo album is a reflective affair, consisting...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: October/2015
Go Slow to Lagos
As the album's title suggests, there's a marked Nigerian Afrobeat feel to this Benin crew's latest, as well as a...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2015
Encores
How the mighty fall. Charles Aznavour is one of the last remaining French icons from an era where only the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2015
Redux: Anthology 1978-2015
After two game-changing albums with his mate Johnny Rotten's post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd, John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015
Uptown Top Ranking
VP Records here present a comprehensive guide to Byron Lee, a bandleader and producer whose appeal grew from the tastes...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2015
