The Toronto-based AfroCuban inspired post-rock outfit Battle of Santiago have a new music video for “Judgement,” the lead single off their forthcoming album, Queen and Judgement, due out this spring. After their 2018 Juno nomination for La Migra,... Read Article
Any new release on the classy French No Format label is going to be at the very least interesting and worthwhile. This marriage of European jazz and ritualistic Afro-Cuban percussion is no exception. It takes a bit of... Read Article
Brazilian rapper Emicida has joined forces with French duo Ibeyi for a new track that celebrates orixá deities such as Xango and Exú. Emicida is definitely no stranger to international collaborations having worked with the USA’s Miguel, the Tokyo... Read Article
Day 6, 6th May 2016 Milillian Galis is widely considered to be a living master of the batá drums and, some years ago, he had throat cancer. Now he speaks through an electrolarynx, which is literally a voice... Read Article
While United States President Barack Obama was making global headlines seated next to Cuban President Raul Castro at a baseball game at Havana’s Estadio LatinoAmericano, one of the island’s most promising Latin jazz talents was getting ready for... Read Article
Nearly thirty years have passed since Gilles Peterson curated his first Sunday afternoon session at the legendary Dingwalls club in North London. From these modest beginnings, he has now become one of the premier tastemakers in UK dance culture;... Read Article
Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba by Jalane D. Schmidt is an impressive history of Nuestra Senora Caridad del Cobre (Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre), the patron saint of Cuba. It... Read Article
The diminutive frame of Cuban songstress Daymé Arocena cut a rather unassuming figure in the grimy environs of the Bedroom Bar in Shoreditch, London last autumn. Straddled by concert goers – crammed into the upstairs space to catch... Read Article
A Kansas City, Mo., -based band has decided to celebrate their fifth anniversary by recording an ambitious cover of one of the most popular salsa songs put out by Fania Records. Making Movies, who describe their music as an psychedelic... Read Article
We speak to New Jersey-born director Leon Gast about Our Latin Thing, a film documenting a Fania All-Stars concert and Latino life in Manhattan (New York) in 1971. The film was reissued earlier this year and is fast... Read Article
