Reviews
Bermuda: Gombay & Calypso 1953-1960
This double CD follows other Frémeaux recordings of 50s Caribbean popular music. But whereas the previous compilations Jamaica Mento and...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2013
The Vortex Sessions
Benjamim Taubkin & Adriano Adewale
For the past decade and a half, Benjamim Taubkin's São Paulo-based Núcleo Contemporàneo label has been quietly nurturing some of...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2013
Benvinguts al Llarg Viatge
Catalan band Txarango have been hailed as the grupo revelación, or next big thing, in the Spanish press. Taking their...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013
MTV Unplugged
This album, recorded in 2011 in Miami and first released at the end of May 2012, made number one in...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013
Polka for Punks
Thirty-five years on, the anarchic spirit of punk keeps emerging in unlikely places, from the Beijing underground to R.U.T.A, the...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: March/2013
Plays Vasco Martins
Bau has been a behind-the-scenes stalwart of Cape Verdean music ever since Cesaria Evora first put the islands on the...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013
Anthologie
An energetic and multi-talented singer and lutenist, Lili Boniche was born in the Jewish sector of the Algiers Casbah in1921...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: March/2013
Singing the Mohini Attam
The Indian dancer Brigitte Chataignier has tastefully recorded and compiled an album highlighting the music of the dance Mohini Attam...
Reviewed by Rolf Killius in issue: March/2013
Reggae Golden Jubilee: Origins of Jamaican Music – 50th Anniversary
Hot on the heels of Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music (reviewed in #88) comes this 100-track box-set,...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: March/2013
