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![Album Review: Orkesta Mendoza – Curandero [Glitterbeat Records; April 2020]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/orkesta-mendoza-curandero-cover-335x335.jpg)
How best to shake off the dust from down Calexico way? Sergio Mendoza has the answer- give your listeners a good time to rival tequila as Mexico’s best export, as on Curandero. What follows is perhaps best described as a more authentic take on the faux-Tex/Mex border radio sound (at...
Heading to Womad or maybe you are already strolling along Charlton Park green, good and ready to enjoy the world music festival par excellence? We have something for you…We went through the music treasure trove that is Womad 2017’s line up and picked 20 acts you shouldn’t miss. From Thursday to Sunday, Open...
Are you ready to guarachar? If you’re based in the UK, ¡Como No! will give you the opportunity to dance, have fun and enjoy the red-blooded norteño sound of Orkesta Mendoza. It will all happen between the 21st and 26th of April, when Sergio Mendoza and his banda will give...
It’s Springtime, and there’s no Springtime without the Latin vibes brought to London by La Linea. Since 2001, the celebrated festival, organised by ¡Como no! has enhanced the London musical calendar for more than a week, updating British audiences on what is happening in the Spanish, South and Latin American...
As you probably have already understood, we genuinely love Orkesta Mendoza sound… So we made our way upstream and tried to understand where their artistic inspiration comes from. We asked Sergio Mendoza (the banda leader) to reveal to us some of his music influences and most-beloved tunes and the following playlist represents,...
La Linea 2017 gets underway tonight with Julieta Venegas and Gizmo Varillas at Barbican. Since 2001, the festival has brought a generous touch of Iberian and Latin American rhythms and dances to London and this edition won’t be an exception. Have a glimpse of what awaits you in the next 12 days and...
