MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Global Routes with TONY BURKE, January 9 2023
Cuban virtuoso Omar Puente speaks to the Morning Star, and reviews of Hit The Bongo! The Latin Soul Of Tico Records and Somanti by Chouk Bwa and The Angstromers
VIRTUOSO: Cuban violinist Omar Puente
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
THE international salsa ensemble Classico Latino return to the studio with a new set Salsa Classics — a homage to Colombian salsa legend and multi instrumentalist Julio Ernesto Estrada aka “Fruko.”
Classico Latino are stellar musicians led by Colombian pianist Ivan Guevara and British cellist/conductor Graham Walke and feature the Cuban violin virtuoso Omar Puente.
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