By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 143 (January/February 2017)
Caribbean Playlist (January/February 2017) | Music Reviews
Double Take — Elan Trotman’s Tropicality (Island Muzik Productions) “First impressions are the most lasting” is a popular proverb...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 142 (November/December 2016)
Caribbean Playlist (November/December 2016) | Music Reviews
Dis 1. 4. Raf — Andy Narell (Listen 2 Records) As if driving home the point that the pendulum of commercial influence for steel pan...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 141 (September/October 2016)
Caribbean Playlist (September/October 2016) | Music Reviews
Metamorphosis — Leon Foster Thomas (Ropeadope Records) Caribbean musicians are increasingly moving to the metropolitan commercial...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
Caribbean Playlist (July/August 2016)
San José Suite — Etienne Charles (Culture Shock Music) Jazz in the wider Americas is more than improvisation that engages the blues and...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 139 (May/June 2016)
Caribbean Playlist (May/June 2016)
Caribbean Roots — Anthony Joseph (Strut/Heavenly Sweetness) “Performance poet” and “spoken word artist” are two descriptives to...
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By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 138 (March/April 2016)
Caribbean Playlist (March/April 2016)
Spice Island — Eddie Bullen (Thunder Dome Sound) Smooth jazz is a music genre purists love to hate, but in the Caribbean it is...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
Caribbean Playlist (January/February 2016)
Cyah Help It Jus Now — Feel Up Records There’s a new riddim happening in music today, which underscores the importance of the...
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
Caribbean Playlist (November/December 2015)
Tropical Disco Hustle Volume Two — Various Artists In the 1970s, when disco had the world dancing, the Caribbean was not a region of...