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Review of Sin Limite

Sin Limite

El Travieso

Tumi Music

Rating: ★★★

El Travieso is the nom de plume of one Candido Fabre Martinez. He's the son of Candido Fabre Sr, who...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of El Saxofón Humano

El Saxofón Humano

Negro Aquilino

Fresh Sound Records

Rating: ★★★★

Fear not, listeners. Contrary to the impression created by his nickname, Aquilino Calzado González is not the even more irritating...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Edge of the Sun

Edge of the Sun

Calexico

City Slang

Rating: ★★★★★

The music of Joey Burns and John Convertino, Calexico's core members, has long explored the Tex-Mex sounds of the cactus-strewn...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions

Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions

Robert Earl Keen

Dualtone

Rating: ★★★★

Robert Earl Keen's latest album kicks off with a funky little hoedown by Flatt & Scruggs, ‘Hot Corn, Cold Corn.’...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of So Delicious!

So Delicious!

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Yazoo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following their album of gospel songs last year, So Delicious! picks up where this hard rocking country blues trio's 2012...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Magia Negra: The Beginning

Magia Negra: The Beginning

Omara Portuondo

World Village

Rating: ★★★

For her latest offering, the octogenarian diva and former Buena Vista Social Club singer has revisited the first LP she...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Wood, Wire & Words

Wood, Wire & Words

Norman Blake

Plectraphone

Rating: ★★★

A mere four decades after his last album of original songs was released (1974's Fields of November), Norman Blake gives...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

Whether or not the odd trippy fuzz guitar, some intergalactic electronic keyboards and a dash of echo really qualifies as...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Le Mississippi

Le Mississippi

Various Artists

Top of the World

Accords Croisés (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★★

This double CD comes with extensive notes (in French and English), providing a broad contemporary overview of roots music along...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Symphony!

Symphony!

Sultans of String

McKhool Records

Rating: ★★★

Good melodies are dauntingly difficult to write. So perhaps it's not surprising that on projects like this one the performances...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

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