Reviews
Andanças
Brazil's gaucho culture is pretty much unknown outside its native country. With globally feted rivals in the shape of bossa...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Nicola Conte presents Viagem 3
For mere mortals, compiling three volumes of obscure Brazilian bossa nova and jazz rarities would be a real challenge. However,...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Paper Airplane
Paper Airplane is the first release by Alison Krauss & Union Station since 2004's Lonely Runs Both Ways. All of...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Aquí Los Bravos
Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo
Every time a new album comes out of one of Colombia's coastal regions, one fact becomes ever clearer: if it...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Night Nurse: The Best Of
Gregory Isaacs, who died at the age of 59 in October last year, was one of the most popular and...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Help My Brother
For a couple of gifted instrumentalists, Eric (banjo) and Leigh Gibson (guitar) have honed their naturally nasal vocal registers into...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Rebelión Tropical: The Very Best of Fruko & Joe Arroyo
These tremendous songs from the Colombian legends – bass player, percussionist, producer and song-writer, Julio Ernesto Estrada Rincon (aka Fruko)...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Bright Morning Stars
They're not sisters, but The Wailin’ Jennys sound like they must have grown up singing under the same roof together....
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Fania Records 1964-1980: The Original Sound of Latin New York
It would seem that Strut's summertime Salsa Explosion (reviewed in Songlines #72) was really just a starter for this, more...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
The Secret Sisters
Vintage dresses? Check. Joyful, springwater-fresh voices? Check. A determination to sidestep the plasticised sound of contemporary country? Check. The Secret...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
