La Pegatina Eureka! (Kasba Music, 2013) Mestizo-pop band La Pegatina delivers a wide-range of joyful musical genres on its fourth album titled Eureka! The panglobal…
La Pegatina’s Mestizo Ability
Category: Album reviews
Dynamic Trance World of Gnawan Music
Simo Lagnawi The Gnawa Berber (Riverboat Records/World Music Network, 2014) Right from the outset of Simo Lagnawi’s latest The Gnawa Berber the listener is flung…
A Delicious Bite On Afrobeat
Tony Allen Film of Life (Jazz Village, 2014) A drummer and musical director for Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band Africa 70 for more than 10 years…
The Timple’s Mestizo Sounds
Beselch Rodríguez In-diferente (Multitrack, 2009) Beselch Rodríguez is part of a new generation of timple players in the Canary Islands that are creating new hybrid…
Sheer Joyfulness of Folk Tunes from the Globe
Wu Man, Luis Conte & Daniel Ho Our World in Song – An Odyssey of Musical Treasures (Wind Music, 2014) So, a Chinese pipa player,…
Excellent Lounge Listen
Various Departure Lounge: Lounge (Petrol Records, 2007) This a lounge compilation on the Petrol Records label called Departure Lounge, which also includes the collections called…
Best of Youssou N’Dour
Youssou N’Dour Best of Youssou N’Dour (Columbia, 2011) Some of the most dynamic sounds to recently come out of Africa have been produced by Senegal-born…
Superb Bansuri Funk
Soulʼd Soulʼd (Narked Records,NAR9380 2014) Soulʼd is a single by a trio called Soulʼd. The group describes its music as a fusion of funk and…
Songs of Time Lost Feels Like a Reunion
Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal Songs of Time Lost (Six Degrees Records, 2014) Two friends who met in Paris got to together to record Songs…
Chart Hits Cuban Style
Cecilia Noël Havana Rocks (Compass Records, 2014) Peruvian vocalist Cecilia Noël traveled to Havana (Cuba), where she recorded an album of 1980s pop and rock…