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Review of Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!

Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!

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Bongo Joe Records

Rating: ★★★

These ten vintage 45 rpm rompers, most around three to four minutes long, are from the late 60s and early...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2024

Review of Pine Tree Flyers

Pine Tree Flyers

Pine Tree Flyers

Pine Tree Flyers

Rating: ★★★

The Pine Tree Flyers’ full-length debut album proudly waves the banner of New England (US) roots music. Fundamentally, this fiddle-based...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2024

Review of Suenan Las Trompetas

Suenan Las Trompetas

Ricardo Jacob

Bongonaut Records

Rating: ★★★

Self-described ‘artist, musician, writer, explorer of himself and transcendence,’ Ricardo Jacob is a producer, composer and veteran of the progressive...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: February/March/2025

Review of Masters of Our Roots

Masters of Our Roots

Albita and Chucho Valdés

InnerCat Entertainment

Rating: ★★★★

A masterclass of 20th century Cuban-American showbiz, this has all the vintage allure of a night at Havana's Tropicana, or...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: September/2025

Review of Vie Kaz

Vie Kaz

Votia

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★★

Votia, a group from La Réunion, come steeped in tradition: powerfully voiced lead singer Marie-Claude Philéas Lambert is the daughter...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2025

Review of Finca Santa Elena

Finca Santa Elena

Arturo Jorge y El Cuarteto Tradición

Tumi

Rating: ★★★★

Though Arturo Jorge was born in 1963, Finca Santa Elena is his debut album. Born in San Rafael, in eastern...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Eastern Moon Rising

Eastern Moon Rising

Boris Kovac & La Campanella

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

Serbian sax player Kovač is fond of wearing an incandescent pink suit. It's perhaps not the garb you'd expect: there...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Canciones Que No Quieren Morir

Canciones Que No Quieren Morir

Litto Nebbia

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

This 21-track compilation focuses on the solo career of the erstwhile Argentine frontman for Los Gatos and composer of their...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2024

Review of Vintage K-Pop Revisited

Vintage K-Pop Revisited

Baeshi Bang

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

A French quintet offering modern jazz-influenced instrumental covers of the songs of a Korean crooner? Even the theoretical infinite monkeys...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2016

Review of El Boom Boom

El Boom Boom

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Tumi TUMI159

Rating: ★★★★

Now here’s a turn up for the books. The indefatigable Tumi Records of Bath has stumbled across a compilation containing...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010

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