Reviews
Mi Mundo
Go looking for music off the beaten Buena Vista track in Havana, and chances are you’ll come across Brenda Navarrete....
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2018
Viaje a la Amistad: La Habana, Paris, Caracas
Gérard Naulet, Orlando Valle, Orlando Poleo & Friends
The trope of a viaje a la amistad – a ‘journey to friendship’ – is integral to Latin American music,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2018
Orquesta Akokán
Son and salsa are soulful and sultry, but mambo has got the edge when it comes to having a laugh....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2018
Keys to Friendship
Aeham Ahmad meets Edgar Knecht
This is an album with quite a story behind it. The Syrian musician Aeham Ahmad played piano in the refugee...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018
Mabagwe: A Tribute to ‘Los Mayores’
Choral music often raises a question: is it for listening to or for singing along with? This homage to their...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2018
Visit Malphino
The continuing globalisation of cumbia has seen it travel from Colombia's Caribbean coast to urban dance halls, stadium rock shows,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2018
Sun Gong/Bring on the Sun
Four decades ago, zitherist Edward Larry Gordon made his debut on a small US label. Then, renamed Laraaji, he collaborated...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2018
From Granmaw and Me
These are the last recordings that the American singer and banjo player Hedy West ever made before she died in...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2018
