Reviews
Cinéma el Mundo
Many times I've taken a deep breath before beginning yet another CD review by some young global fusion band who...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2012
Quatro: The Definitive Collection
Four discs from Tito Puente’s time with RCA in the 50s, a bonus disc of outtakes and unreleased tracks, digital...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2013
Tumbuka Voices
Emerging from the same cultural and geographical milieu as the recent Malawi Mouse Boys’ album, Umoza (meaning ‘togetherness’) is a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
We’re Usually A Lot Better Than This
If they really are ‘usually a lot better than this’ then it's difficult to imagine what Tim O'Brien and Darrell...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013
Kinshasa 1978: Originals and Reconstructions
This is a welcome reimagining of a remarkable recording that captured the early days of the Congotronics groups. Recorded in...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
14 Cheerful Pieces
This is another diamond among the numerous recently issued recordings of Persian classical music. The line-up is quite unusual: the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2011
Peru: Music of the Awajún and Wampis Amazonia, Cenepa Valley
Assessing an album of 36 brief pieces of music from small Amazonian settlements in Peru is a challenging task. The...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: June/2010
Grande Liquidação
The Mr Bongo label deserves some kudos for re-releasing this, the hard-to-find 1968 debut album from everyone's favourite world music...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Ondatropica
No one does Colombia with as much attention to detail as Soundway Records. Their latest two-CD release, Ondatrópica, is a...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia
Música Llanera is the music of the vast open expanses of the Colombian plains around the Orinoco River, up in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
