Steel Pulse – True Democracy (Elektra/Rhino R2 79287, 2005) Steel Pulse – Earth Crisis (Elektra/Rhino R2 74687, 2005) These two albums, originally released in 1982…
Re-check Your Pulse
Category: Album reviews
A New Generation of Garifuna Drummers
Lebeha Boys Lebeha Drumming (innova 2009, 2005) In 2002, Garifuna drummer Jabbar Lambey and Canadian Dorothy Pettersen started the Lebeha Drumming Center. The school is…
Wild Polkas
Afenginn Retrograd (Tutl Shd67, 2004) Hailing from Denmark, Afengin do not play what you would expect from a Nordic country. Instead, the band plays breakneck…
Uzbekistandards
Ochilbek Matchonov Music From Central Asia: Uzbekistan on the Silk Road (ARC Music EUCD 1946, 2005) Music from the Silk Road regions and countries ending…
The New Fadistas
Ana Moura – Guarda-Me a Vida Na Mao (Universal Music Portugal, 2003/World Village, 2004) Fado music has been experiencing a renaissance in recent years.…
Celtic Flamencos
Marcos Teira Punta de Cabío (Xingra, 2002) Most flamenco guitar albums come either from Andalusia (southern Spain), the large Flamenco enclave in Madrid or the…
Cambridge massive
Horace X Strategy (Phantom, 2005) This six-piece band from Cambridge, UK, have been on the scene since 1993. In that time they’ve not exactly been…
Let the Son Shine In
Sierra Maestra Son: Soul of a Nation (World Music Network/Riverboat Records TUGCD1039, 2005) No band is better qualified to present an album celebrating the history…
Transatlantacoustic klezmer
Nikitov Amulet (Chamsa, 2004) Music from the Jewish diaspora, broadly known as Klezmer, has its roots in East & West European traditional music. The music…
Hero Worship
Christopher Hedge The New Heroes (Triloka/Artemis TRI-CD-82056) I haven’t seen the Robert Redford-hosted PBS documentary that this is the soundtrack for. Still, perhaps it’s an…