// REVIEWS
Live Wire
Woody Guthrie (United States)08/09/2011
Our Latin Thing
Fania All Stars (Cuba, Puerto Rico, United States)
The long-awaited remastered version of Fania’s Our Latin Thing is finally released. We review the historic New York City salsa film. This film is no slick talking-head documentary. This is a free-form, hand-held classic, shot in the...
02/09/2011
Rubber Orchestras
Anthony Joseph (Trinidad And Tobago, United Kingdom)
Born in Trinidad and based in London, the poet and novelist Anthony Joseph is gifted with a rare charisma and always seemed set to pioneer a shape-shifting global sound. On stage his Spasm Band deliver stunning performances, and on this, their third...
02/09/2011
The Interrupters - CeaseFire Chicago
Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz (United States)
In the wake of last week’s riots across the UK every inner city should be doing publicised showings of Steve James’ latest award-winning documentary The Interrupters. Filmed in Chicago over a year this film captures a period when the city...
17/08/2011
Hollie Cook
Hollie Cook (United Kingdom)
Hollie Cook is a daughter of music. Her father Paul played drums with The Sex Pistols and her mother, Jennie Matthias, sang with The Bodysnatchers and The Belle Stars. This self-titled debut album, produced by Mike Pelanconi aka Prince Fatty, is a...
10/08/2011
Ela Lia
Damily (Madagascar)
Recorded in three days during a European tour, and sensitively mixed by the electro producer Grant Phabao, Ela Lia is the second international release by Malagasy musician Damily, the young tsapiky guitar hero. The genre was created in the late 60s by...
10/08/2011
Band Of Gypsies 2
Taraf de Haďdouks (Romania)
Ten years after the original Band Of Gypsies album by Taraf de Haďdouks, the legendary Romanian band joins forces with Macedonia’s celebrated Koçani Orkestar on this new release. The encounter between these two mighty Roma groups is a musical...
15/06/2011
Alamar
Pedro González-Rubio (Mexico)
In his award-winning film Pedro González-Rubio tells the story of the bond between a father and son. Their relationship deepens over a few days together on an atoll reef called Banco Chinchorro, off the coast of Mexico. In this simple setting the...
08/06/2011
Afrolatin
Franco (Democratic Republic Of Congo)
These Afrolatin compilations on Syllart follow on from the lovely African Pearls series, Mali 70, Congo 70 and Senegal 70, and this time put the spotlight on cities and ports. Both these releases are double discs full to the brim with the music which...
08/06/2011
Fire In Babylon
Viv Richards (Antigua And Barbuda)
“Cricket lovely cricket, hit the ball before it reach the wicket….” Jah Thomas It’s a Wednesday evening and screen 3 at the Curzon cinema in Soho is packed with men, sporty looking Caucasian blokes, who have settled into...
01/06/2011
Youness El Guezouli (Morocco)
In 2003 Youness El Guezouli was the winner in the first series of Casting Star, Morocco’s answer to X Factor. He has just released his debut album Safar which seductively showcases this dishy 27 year old’s pure voice. The songs range from...
25/05/2011
Les blogs
Mondomix
Puglia Sounds
It will be the window of Puglia Sounds in France and in all Europe. This blog will show all the i...
AFRO by SOUL
Africa is the future and the future is now…as the prophecy unfolds Eric Soul is as always ahead o...
The Center for Black Music
The Center for Black Music in Salvador, Bahia, and the International Exhibition of Black Music in...
Charlie Gillett
Charlie Gillett was one of the UK's leading World Music journalists. For years he presented a wee...
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