Reviews
Todo Transito
Just once in a while an album arrives in unexpected fashion and you hear a new original voice. It’s rare...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Corridos of the Chicano Movement
’To my mother I’m a Mexican, by destiny I’m American/I speak Spanish and English, I’m from the noble golden race’....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Back to Peru Vol II
Any illusion that it was only the US, UK and parts of Europe that properly embraced rock in the 1960s...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
All In One
Bebel Gilberto clearly craves crossover success. She's made a decent fist of achieving it too, with 2000's electronica–enhanced Tanto Tempo...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Borders and Bailes
There’s no getting away from it, it’s a bad name for a band. But spicing up the genre of conjunto...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Maestros del Joropo Oriental: ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela!
Venezuela is more than Hugo Chavez, the Bolivarian revolution, Gustavo Dudamel and the Orchestra Simon Bolivar. Yet all have contributed...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Junio Groove
When Asere started out, they were young turks from the margins of Havana, part of a scene that peaked with...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Drops Genuine Negro Jig
Choosing to resuscitate a near-extinct musical tradition is as curious a decision as it is admirable. Nobody seems to have...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
Trova
Marta Topferova is an exciting example of a new generation of musician-composers as adept in Caribbean and South American music...
Reviewed in issue March/2010
