Linette Tobin's Pangaea

Linette Tobin has a unique way of expressing her worldview. Tobin’s new album is a series of songs that makes good use of her chosen instrument, congas, and provides a setting for songs that focus on both global and personal concerns. She tackles discord among women, breakups, refugees, and the pain of watching a beloved relative die. The songs on “The New Shape of the World” are stylistically in the World Music genre. The album “The New Shape of the World” is vibrant. In a musical landscape full of ensembles with guitars and basses and drums, a group that puts congas at the fore of its sound is unusual. Tobin and her assembled players bring hope and a new styles of world music to audiences. On the title track . . . Tobin encourages women to put away their superficial differences to focus on larger goals. It sounds simple, but Tobin’s approach makes it sound as if such is actually possible. In short, the song offers hope. A brief debut album, it is worth listening to over and over. - LemonWire

Picking her playmates wisely, this bouncy Afro Cuban world beat date has the diversity and drive to bring it to the fore with ease. Kind of a nu-ethnic date, the hallmark elements are in evidence, but gringos can dig it too. - MidWest Record

“She is a bold and contemporary percussionist”
Emilito del Monte Mata (Cuban percussionist with Alexis Bosch, Cubanismo, Robert Fonseca)

“Great mastery of all genres on the congas”
Duniesky “Duni el Cuba” Barreto (Cuban percussionist with Pupy y Los que Son Son and Bamboleo)

“Her playing is not just rhythmical, but musical”
Carlos Cesar Rodriguez (Venezuelan Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor)

“Her abilities and dominance in playing this music”
Ernesto “Gato” Gatell Coto (Afro-Cuban lead singer) -

#1 Top 5 World Adds (Feb. 5, 2019), #16 on Top 30 World Charts” — – NACC, (Feb 19, 2019)

#1 on Top 50 World Album Chart” — Root Music Report (Feb. 23, 2019) - Roots Music Report and NACC Charts