int'l + reggae add-a-rama
COMRADES! We note with barely contained satisfaction the recent adds of both POLYSICS and SERGIO MENDES to the 'FHB 'POOL! Perhaps one or more of these will accomidate Comisar Manion's next Five Year Plan? Or even next week's adds? Watch this space!.....Artist: Bob Marley and the Wailers
Title: One Love: At Studio One 1964-1966
Label: Heartbeat
Genre: reggae
Grade: A
On the heels of the recent Marley/Wailers compilation Africa Unite, as well as those three new Studio One compilation reissues, it was inevitable that we would get this: a Marley/Wailers compilation of stuff from their Studio One days. There’s a treasure trove of early stuff here to investigate and play with. And of course it’s fun to hear the boys riff Jr. Walker (“Ska Jerk”), do covers of the Beatles (“And I Love Her”) and Dylan (“Rolling Stone”), go doo-wop (“Where’s The Girl For Me”) or even try their hand at gospel (“Amen”). But just how many more times can Mr. Marley and his aforementioned Wailers be repackaged and sold back to us?
Reviewer: bjorn ingvoldstad
Artist: Cesaria Evora
Title: Rogamar
Label: RCA / Bluebird
Genre; int’l / Cape Verde
Grade: A
Evora is one of those consummate veterans who makes whatever she does sound easy and effortless—a dead giveaway for decades of hard, hard work. On Rogamar, she settles somewhere between carnival and Carribean—smooth and acoustic, and often as not upbeat and spirited. What’s not to like?
Reviewer: bjorn ingvoldstad
Artist: v / a
Title: Traveler 06
Label: Six Degrees
Genre: int’l / electronica vs. exotica
Grade: A
The 2006 installment in this well-established series is one of the best so far, featuring a few surprises as well as all the usual varieties of globetrotting ethno-funk. On the stranger side are an unusually dark Temple of Sound remix of Cheb i Sabbah's "Esh 'Dani, Alash Mshit" (02) and Waxxhopper's brilliantly beat-heavy (and also rather dark) take on Dierdre's "Firefly" (04). Less startling, but equally engaging, are the slightly Brazilian-flavored Da Lata remix of Shrift's "As Far as I Can See" [07] (which very nicely juxtaposes Nina Miranda's light and flutey voice with sharp and heavy beats) and an eerie, reggaeton-flavored take on Issa Bagayogo's "Touba" (05). Everything here is well worth hearing, and more than half of it is drop-dead brilliant. Highly recommended. ( 4 stars )
Reviewer: Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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