Various Artists – Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil (World Music Network RGNET1188CD, 2007) Brazil is one of those countries, like Cuba and Mali…
An Updated Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil
Category: Album reviews
Motown Classics Get Hip Latin Remixes
Various Artists Motown Remixed, Vol. 2 (Motown, 2007) Some of the coolest music in the late 1960s and early 1970s was released on the Motown…
Skatalites Present New Material On the Right Track
The Skatalites On the Right Track (AIM, 2007) Veteran Jamaican band The Skatalites chose Australia to record its second album of new material. Even though…
The Boy’s Still Doin’ It
Hugh Masekela Live at the Market Theatre (Times Square Records/Four Quarters FQT-CD-1805, 2007) My task here is made immeasurably easier by the fact that Hugh…
Swinging Castilian Folk
Tradere Listo para Llevar (Several Records SRD-351, 2007) Tradere is a contemporary folk music band from ancient Castile (Spain). The six veteran musicians take Spanish…
Kenyan Continuum
Kenge Kenge – Introducing Kenge Kenge (World Music Network INTRO107CD, 2007) Spotlight on Kenyan Music (ARC Music EUCD 2030, 2006) My appetite for Kenyan music…
The Blues: African American World Music
Various Artists – The Rough Guide to the Blues (World Music Network, 2007) B.B. King – 20th Century Masters: BB King – The Best of…
Historical Reggae Recording by Culture Reissued in Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition
Culture Two Sevens Clash, the 30th Anniversary Edition (Shanachie, 2007) Originally released in 1977, Two Sevens Clash was the debut of legendary reggae band Culture.…
Outside Assistance
Baka Beyond and Baka Gbine Baka Live (March Hare Music MAHACD 26, 2007) Beginning in the early ’90s as a melding of acoustic U.K. melodies…
Confluence of Instrumentalists Recreates Era of Tolerance
Orchestre Andalou d’Israel [Israeli Andalusian Orchestra] Ashdod-Yam (Magda, 2006) The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra specializes in Arab-Andalusian music, the music that was played in Medieval Muslim…