World-music fusions might still strike some people as something new, but borrowing, blending and remaking sounds to one's own taste has always been at the heart of pop music. Technology simply has ...

1. Africando – Viva Africando (Sterns): African musicians excel at making great tropical latin music, and this new cd by the PuertoRican / Cuban / African band Africando features great musicianship ...

The transatlantic trade in Latin music hit a hot spot with this Senegal-New York combo, who celebrate their 20th anniversary with a typically slick, high-energy blast of big-band salsa. That it was ...

Fourteen years on from the first collaboration between top Senegalese singers and Latin musicians from New York, the latest lineup of this "Afro-Salsa supergroup" proves to be on remarkably fine form.