Reviews

Copperdollar: The Back of Beyond

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This is the work of DJ Marc Stylus, resident disc spinner with the freaky immersive theatre company Copperdollar. Emerging out...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2014

Mirrors

Mala

Though he will perhaps always be best known for his role in instigating the dubstep movement – through his work...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Amina

Refugees for Refugees

Three years ago I reviewed Amerli, by a collection of 20 instrumentalists and singers from Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Tabla Jugalbandi for Ustad Shamsuddin Khan’s Punyatithi, 1968

Shashi Bellare & Ravi Bellare

This is a very rare private recording from 1968, featuring two percussion maestros of yesteryear, the twins Shashi (who died...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2012

Palya

Iwantja

The hottest thing in Australia’s Central Desert these days is the young Abori¬ginal band Iwantja. Hailing from the bush community...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Cinema

Karsh Kale

Cinema is fusionist Kale's fifth and most ambitious album and was recorded in New Delhi, New York, Mumbai, and Ibiza...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2011

Guitarra 66

To Trips

Best known for his work with Dead Combo, To Trips decided to go temporarily solo and record Guitarra 66. Dead...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2010

Salsa Salsa

Tito Puente & his Orchestra

‘El Rey del Timbai died in 2000 at the age of 77. Like most kings, Tito Puente left behind a...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Escape – The Story of Jan Baalsrud and the Shetland Bus

Jenna & Bethany Reid

The Arctic wastelands to the north of Norway can be the most desolate of places on earth… And yet in...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2011

On & Between: New Music for Pipa & Western Ensembles

Lin Ma & Zhen Chen

This suite of pieces by New York-based pianist and composer Zhen Chen is a musical tribute to Chinese immigrants to...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2018