World Circuit Records has been reissuing on vinyl various jewels from its trove of world music recordings. Their latest release is the superlative solo album of Cuba’s brilliant bassist, Orlando ‘Cachaito’ López, titled just Cachaito. I am as... Read Article
Wearing his famous black cowboy hat, a mark of his guajiro, or peasant, roots, Eliades Ochoa stands out among the patrons of a central London café. Accompanied by his wife and biographer Grisel Sande Figueredo, the 71-year-old seems... Read Article
Recent tourists of Cuba will tell you: the song you hear at nearly every establishment in Havana, or in the resorts in Varadero, is “Chan Chan,” made popular by the Buena Vista Social Club, an ensemble of Cuban... Read Article
Wherever pianist Roberto Fonseca lays his hat he always remembers home. Cuba. For those doubting Thomases out there merely spell his latest album ABUC back to front and alakazam! Knocking around for many years, he has collaborated with... Read Article
From Buena Vista Social Club to Mayra Andrade and Raúl Midón, Roberto Fonseca has certainly earnt his reputation as an acclaimed jazz pianist and artist, and rightly so. A true Habanero, Fonseca is kicking off his tour of... Read Article
In his customary black cowboy hat, this time accompanied by his sister Maria, Eliades Ochoa has released a new album of conviviality, dance, and seriousness, Guajira + Mas Guajira. The album expresses an art of living rooted in an... Read Article
Ahmir Khalib Thompson, more commonly known as ?uestlove or Questlove, is a music genius, journalist, Ambassador of Hip Hop, and up-and-coming food curator. I grew up knowing about Questlove as a drummer with Philadelphia’s hip hop crew The... Read Article
Cuba’s music, and its people who are seemingly so invested in keeping its classic alive, is perhaps the biggest thing I took away when I visited the island in 2013. Everywhere I went, whether it was a large restaurant, or a... Read Article
At times it feels as if Roberto Fonseca‘s reputation has more to do with his time supporting Buena Vista Social Club on tour, performing cameos on the various albums spawned from that project, or more recently, for appearing... Read Article
La Vida Boheme have just played a secret show for MTV Iggy in New York. I think it’s fair to say this band from Caracas, Venezuela who mix punk and 80s pop with a ridiculously energetic live show... Read Article
It’s not always a disaster when plans go astray. Fourteen years after the celebrated sessions in Havana that gave rise to the Buena Vista Social Club, AfroCubism is a re-imagining of how that record might have sounded if... Read Article
Labelled as an epic animated love story between Chico and Rita, in reality this story is all about Cuba and the perennial charm of the music coming from the country. The film begins in Havana in 1948 with... Read Article
