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Sharon Shannon
Sharon Shannon’s latest is an album that cries out for a whole new kind of warning label: “Caution: contents may cause cardiac arrest in Irish traditional music purists.” Libertango (Compass) is as lovely and lively as any of her releases since her 1991 eponymous debut,
By Marty Lipp
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Dub Trio
"The way I look at it, we’re not strictly playing roots dub or reggae dub," says Dub Trio's Joe Toimino. "We’re definitely not trying to be Rastafari. What we do is to use dub more as a musical foundation, as a concept to build off of.”
By Bill Murphy
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Pum Pum Posse
The Pum Pum Posse, a controversial poetry group comprised of the singers and a violinist, are centered around two dreadlocked Rasta women who just happen to be mother and daughter.
By Eve M. Ferguson
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Machel Montano
Since the mid-1990s Machel Montano has been cited as the artist most likely to break soca into the musical mainstream, yet he has experienced an inordinate share of bad luck with record labels. Montano recorded dozens of songs but none of the music has ever been released.
By Patricia Meschino
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David Darling and Wulu Bunun
The Wulu Bunun’s music could have been recorded as field recordings or in a nearby studio, but David Darling and album producer Shu-Fang Wang wanted the album to be a true collaboration.
By Tad Hendrickson
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Suzzana Owiyo
Suzzana Owiyo is a young, guitar-packing Luo singer-songwriter who’s showing the world that her people have more than one musical trick up their sleeve.
By Tom Pryor
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