Reviews
Beginner’s Guide to Cumbia
Cumbia is one o f Colombia’s greatest exports, spreading like wildfire throughout the Americas from the 1960s onwards. Back in...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2011
Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust &Contempt from the 1920s &1930s
Thanks to dedicated researchers like Art Rosenbaum and ardent collectors like John Heneghan, a New York-based musician whose precious library...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2011
Black &White: Recorded in the Field by Art Rosenbaum
In 2007 and 2009, Dust to D igital released volumes one and two of Art of the Field Recording by...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2011
Laru Beya
The influence of the late Andy Palacio runs through these dozen songs and for Aurelio Martinez, a guitarist, singer-songwriter and...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: March/2011
Beyond Babylon
Arifa unites four Dutch and Belgian musicians who have roots in the Balkans and the Middle-East: Turkish and Dutch percussionist...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2011
Afghan Music
Vocalists Zohreh Jooya and Hossein Arman are exiled Afghans performing with the Afghan En– semble, a traditional-style group rather like...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2011
Bako
In case we don’t know quite what to call this, those kind folks over at Norway’s EM Label have come...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011
Fado Tradicional
Since her 2001 debut Fado emMim, Mariza has taken fado to a new, non-Portuguese audience and expanded its horizons by...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
Remixed
Luisa Maita debuted last year with the delicious Lero Lero, an album which this publication described as ‘dreamy an d...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2011
