Tuesday, July 26 2011
ChuCha Santamaria y Usted: ChuCha Santamaria y Usted
Gently explores all your fave disco genres, including freestyle, Italo, motorik, and the hard-charging Pitbull stomp.
Thursday, March 11 2010
Josh Rouse: El Turista
More postcards from a sunny exile. Far from the blue glow of melancholy, Rouse's music aims for glorious golden moments.
Tuesday, July 7 2009
Ojos de Brujo: Aocaná
Aocaná seems to me softer than their past work, more laid-back, with less scratching and fewer u-turns.
Wednesday, October 15 2008
Buika: Niña de Fuego
Buika has the right way of sounding drunk yet alert enough to mourn and scorn absent lovers.
Monday, November 19 2007
Various: Porque Este Océano es el Tuyo, es el Mío
This album, its mouthful of a title borrowed from Pablo Neruda, is a compilation of indie pop tracks from South and Central America.
Thursday, October 25 2007
Aroah: El Día Después
The music seems to look inward, as if the singer is addressing herself before considering us, but it doesn't have the fierce self-absorption or the lack of humour that the word 'intensity' can suggest.
Thursday, May 10 2007
Burbuja: Burbuja
A distant aural cousin to the scenes in the garden at the start of Blue Velvet.
Tuesday, May 8 2007
Benjamin Escoriza: Alevanta!
After listening to Alevanta! it's easy to think of this as the fifth Radio Tarifa album that never was.
