Reviews
El Mito de la Pérgola
If any musician is going to reconfigure the airy strangeness of Andean music, Chilean singer Pascuala Ilabaca might be the...
Reviewed in issue December/2018
Action! and Intensified
Desmond Dekker brought Jamaican music into the international pop charts – first with ‘007 (Shanty Town)’ in 1967 then in...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
A Toda Cuba le Gusta
This welcome, remastered reissue of a classic World Circuit album should help to adjust an imbalance created by the phenomenon...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
People of the Sun
Anthony Joseph was raised in Trinidad, shifted to London and has, over recent decades, made a name for himself as...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana
Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares
The ringing guitar and tres duets between Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo, first heard on 1986's Chanchaneando, went on to...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Oye Manita
When a 39-year-old Totó La Momposina arrived in Paris in June 1979 as a refugee from Colombia, she had already...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Kutu Prieta Pa Saranguia
The resurgent interest in Afro-Colombian music continues with this album by Son Palenque, who, in the 1980s, helped popularise the...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Daisy's Beauty Salon
If you ever needed proof that music can be transportive, then this is it. From the moment the groove drops...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Tentation
Temptation has rarely sounded this exuberant. Inspired by the biblical theme of the temptation of Saint Anthony, the Yves Lambert...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Herencia de la Tierra Mía
The mariachi spectacle – much like the burrito and margarita – is all too easy to bastardise. Wandering spangle-suited musicians...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
