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Review of Don’t You Want To Go?

Don’t You Want To Go?

Betse Ellis

Free Dirt DIRTCD0058

Rating: ★★★★

A superbly talented fiddle player from Kansas City, Missouri, and member of the acoustic bluegrass band The Wilders, Betse Ellis...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura – New Cuba Sound

Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura – New Cuba Sound

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top of the World

Brownswood BWOOD038CD

Rating: ★★★★

Clubbers and Cubanophiles alike will leap on this double set from the zeitgeist-riding Gilles Peterson. Financed by Havana Rum and...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Light a Candle

Light a Candle

Forró in the Dark

Top of the World

Nublu Records/Nat Geo Music NGM003

Rating: ★★★★★

Forró is an eternally sunny, jiggy dance from north¬eastern Brazil that became very popular in the 1990s with the São...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Vive I’Amour

Vive I’Amour

Bonsoir Catin

Valcour Records VALCD0007

Rating: ★★★★

Too bad if you weren’t there to witness these talented Cajun ladies performing at the funky and friendly Blue Moon...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Panama! 3

Panama! 3

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soundway SNDWCD/LP018

Rating: ★★★★

How much music can little Panama keep finding in its vaults? With the third instalment of Soundway’s Panama series (subtitled...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Casita de Campo

Casita de Campo

Puerto Plata

iASO Records iASCD004

Rating: ★★★★

Jose Manuel Cobles, aka Puerto Plata, is an 83–year–old legend from the Dominican Republic who draws on song styles from...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2010

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