Articles by Derek Nawrot

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  Pacha Massive

  All Good Things

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2007

  With a fairly cheesy cover, young male/female street-wear clad singers and rollicking grooves highlighted by a great breezy single, "Don’t...

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  Spanish Harlem Orchestra

  United We Swing

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2007

  With a recent spate of almost always good "salsa dura” (heavy salsa) reissues focusing on the pioneering ’70s New York scene, it is increas...

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  Carla Bruni

  No Promises

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

  Carla Bruni will unfortunately always be more synonymous with what she has accomplished non-musically, such as being a world-famous model a...

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  Clientele

  God Save The Clientele

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

  God Save the Clientele is a fitting title for a band that very wryly announced last year that they might not even put out a new album. Howe...

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  Various

  Putumayo Presents "A New Groove"

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2007

  Though the title suggests that the latest instalment in this Putumayo series fits safely in the groove genre, it peaks the listener’s inter...

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  Ojos de Brujo

  Techarí

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2007

  Five years after their critically acclaimed Barí album, which sold over 100,000 copies and won them accolades world-wide, including the BBC...

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  The Postmarks

  The Postmarks

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2007

  Miami is not typically a place to inspire twee, intelligent Euro-pop. Most notably because the weather is in a general constant state of bl...

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  Alex Cuba

  Agua del Pozo

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2007

  Five years ago it would have been inconceivable that some of the most inimitable Cuban music today was coming not from the land of the son...