Reviews
Panama! 3
How much music can little Panama keep finding in its vaults? With the third instalment of Soundway’s Panama series (subtitled...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Lus
Cesaria Evora may have put the Cape Verde islands on the musical map, but the next generation of artists from...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Bend Skin Beats
Blind singer-guitarist André Marie Tala is a veteran of modern Cameroonian music. Some of his earliest recordings were arranged by...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Murmichan
After five studio albums and one live collection since 1994, the latest from Scotland’s foremost folk-based dance floor posse seeks...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Casita de Campo
Jose Manuel Cobles, aka Puerto Plata, is an 83–year–old legend from the Dominican Republic who draws on song styles from...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Ghetto Blasters
And so the part) goes on. It seems hard to believe that Romanian Gypsy firebrands MRB have only been around...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Como Lo Ves
With their selection box of various Latin styles, Lariba are another border-erasing product of music’s global village. The eight-piece –...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Tsuker-zis
Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg
Lorin Sklamberg (The Klezmatics) and Frank London (Klezmer Brass Allstars) collaborate here yet again, on Tsuker-zis (Sugar-Sweet). Both musicians have...
Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Swaziland: Songs of the Swazi
Despite the 82–year reign of Sobhuza II – the “hip king’’ eulogised by South African jazzer Abdullah Ibrahim – Swaziland...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Nha Sentimento
If this was the first ever Cesaria Evora album I’d give it four or five stars. Even after a stroke...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
