Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics: Cigarros Explosivos! By Deanne Sole / 24 June 2014 They need to either knock you dead with skill or else subvert the whole notion of skill.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Sibelius-Akatemian Folk Big Band: FBB By Deanne Sole / 20 June 2014 When the voices ring together it's a communality fantasia or HOA's magic joy-dream.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Ahmed: Dhaalu Raa By Deanne Sole / 19 June 2014 When he tenses up for hard rock, he sounds gawky, but relaxation turns him intense.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Various Artists: globalFEST Selector By Deanne Sole / 18 June 2014 None of the megafamous names are on here, but nobody's going to miss them.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove By Deanne Sole / 16 June 2014 Customer satisfaction almost universal on this one.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Anansy Cissé: Mali Overdrive By Deanne Sole / 12 June 2014 Execution is king here.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Ibibio Sound Machine: Ibibio Sound Machine By Deanne Sole / 11 June 2014 This is an album that came out of a language.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Yasmine Hamdan: Ya Nass By Deanne Sole / 2 June 2014 Her narrators miss their lovers, they're sad about them, they're filled with longing.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis: Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis By Deanne Sole / 30 May 2014 A good rapprochement, tender not timid.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate: Faya By Deanne Sole / 13 May 2014 Excitement and speed is OK, but the whole thing seems so hollow.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Calaita Flamenco Son: Calaita Flamenco Son By Deanne Sole / 8 May 2014 Pere and Sharp don't have the mutually attacking relationship that you hear in some flamenco partnerships.
Capsule Reviews/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music Aziza Brahim: Soutak By Deanne Sole / 7 May 2014 Her parents were born in the Western Sahara, and the temptation will be to lump her in with the desert blues-rock bands that sprang from the same region.