March Fourth Marching Band Rise Up (MarchFourth Music, 2009) You can pretty much forget everything you think you know about how a marching band should…
Strides of March
Category: Album reviews
Mediterranean Celts
Loreena McKennitt A Mediterranean Odyssey (Quinlan Road, 2009) The great Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt has a new beautifully packaged two-CD set titled A…
Rejuvenated Acadian Melodies
Chuck & Albert Energie (2009) Canadian duo Chuck & Albert have a new album titled Energie that gives new life to ancient French-Acadian songs. This…
Jazz Planet
Putumayo Presents: Jazz Around the World (Putumayo PUT 296-2, 2009) I can’t define jazz any more than I can define world music, so the many…
The Chicken Scratch of Cisco Band and the Joaquin Brothers
The Cisco Band and The Joaquin Brothers Popular Dance Music of the Natives of Southern Arizona (Canyon Records, 2009) This CD reissue combines the 1975…
Markovic Brass Funk
Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar Devla (Piranha Musik, November 10, 2009) Few Eastern European brass bands can match the vitality and innovation of Serbian band…
In the Biguine-ing
Tumbélé: Biguine, Afro and Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-1974 (Soundway SNDWCD017P, 2009) While the slickly produced sounds of zouk became wildly popular in…
A Wink to Quebec’s Musical Future
Le Vent du Nord La Part du Feu (Borealis Music, 2009) Canadian band Le Vent du Nord’s recording La Part du Feu is a winner.…
Rich and Warm as the Finest Liqueur
Cesaria Evora Nha Sentimento (Lusafrica, 2009) With thousands of adoring fans, six Grammy Award winning recordings to her name and a voice as rich and…
Desirable Tea
Tea Dreams (Teajuana Music, 2009) Tea is a Los Angeles-based group formed by French guitarist Franck Balloffet and American drummer and keyboardist Phil Bunch. Their…