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Review of Pan Atlantico

Pan Atlantico

Diana Baroni & Simon Drappier

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★

Pan Atlantico is a powerful and deeply-moving album that fuses Latin, North American and European styles. Performed live, the sound...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2022

Review of Pan

Pan

Grupo Pan

Munster Records / Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★★

Fans of Venezuelan rock (and there should be more) will be eager to snap up this long out-of-print jewel, originally...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: November/2023

Review of Sonche Atlántico

Sonche Atlántico

Pancho Álvarez

Fol Musica

Rating: ★★★

This short, finely-crafted album by Galician multi-instrumentalist Pancho Álvarez – his fourth solo record – reveals an artist on fine...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2012

Review of PAN Project

PAN Project

PAN Project

Neuma Records

Rating: ★★★★

Taking their name from the Korean music-storytelling tradition pansori – meaning ‘to gather’ or ‘come together’ – PAN Project is a...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2022

Review of What Pan Did for Me

What Pan Did for Me

Rudy Smith

Caprice Records

Rating: ★★★★

Visitors to Port of Spain's legendary carnival will recall Panorama, the steel band competition at which bands – some up...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: November/2015

Review of Atlântico

Atlântico

Fapy Lafertin New Quartet

Top of the World

Frémeaux & supAssociés

Rating: ★★★★

Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021

Review of Melting Pot

Melting Pot

Steel Pan Fusion

Steel Pan Fusion

Rating: ★★★★

If you think of steel pan music as nothing but boring standards by a bored-looking busker, then Melting Pot will...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Songs Beyond Words

Songs Beyond Words

A Moving Sound

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Performing together for more than 20 years, the husband and wife team of vocalist Mia Hsieh, a Taiwan native, and...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: March/2021

Review of Con-Fusion

Con-Fusion

Fimber Bravo

Moshi Moshi Records

Rating: ★★★

This steel pan drummer from Trinidad was one of the founding members of cult the outfits 20th Century Steel Band...

Reviewed by John M Gomez in issue: June/2013

Review of Expansions

Expansions

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

Big Crown Records

Rating: ★★★★

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band are a German steel pan band that have earned a reputation for giving a Trinidad...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: October/2021

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