Los Fulanos Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo (Lovemonk, 2012) Y Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo (If All This…
If All This Ends, Keep On With The Boogaloo
Category: Album reviews
The New Parranda Sound
La Sardina de Naiguatá ¡Parranda! Venezuelan Carnival Music (Smithsonian Folkways, 2012) Venezuelan band La Sardina de Naiguatá (The Sardine of Naiguatá) plays a contemporary form…
Putumayo Presents Arabic Beat
Various Artists Putumayo Presents Arabic Beat (Putumayo World Music, 2012) Anyone who’s read my reviews with any regularity knows that I just go all gooey…
Fatou
Fatoumata Diawara Fatou (World Circuit/Nonesuch Records, 2012) Kicking offer her debut recording on August 28th on the Nonesuch Records label, the Malian singer/songwriter Fatoumata Diarawa…
Saharawi Passion
Mariem Hassan El Aaiún Egdat – El Aaiún on Fire (Nubenegra, 2012) The latest album by Saharawi star Mariem Hassan has been attracting a lot…
Making it Beautiful and Deep
Samite Trust (Musicians for World Harmony, 2012) Renowned Ugandan multi-instrumentalist Samite develops new East African instrumental music on his latest CD, titled Trust. For this…
Without Walls
Dorantes Sin Muros! (Universal Music Spain, 2012) With previous recordings Orobroy and Sur, Sevillian pianist David Peña Dorantes is back with his latest Sin Muros!,…
El Rumor de Tus Tangos
Trio Garufa El Rumor de Tus Tangos (Garufa Records, 2012) Curses! As I have no tango skills, I had to sit chair bound through a…
A Portrait of Cape Verde’s Titina
Titina Portrait (Network Records, 2012) I’m always a little surprised at the capricious nature of the music industry. It’s sort of a lesson in futility…
Into the Light
Mandolin U. Rajesh Into the Light (Music Today) This is an excellent fusion of Carnatic classical melodies with Western musical idioms. U. Rajesh is the…