Reviews
Adama Drame
A long-term champion of West Africa’s loudest hand drum, the djembé master Adama Dramé here gets his early 90s solo...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Havana Central
London’s jazz scene is teeming with talented musicians long overdue their dues. The 20-piece genre-hopping outfit Sunlight Square Combo is...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Que Beleza
Another summer, another Ipanemas album, and if the British weather stays anything like as sweet as Que Beleza sounds, a...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Helsinki
This is a musical marriage made in heaven between an accordionist (Lepistö) of exceptional elegance and beauty and a bass...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Afrobeast
Yaaba Funk are a multiracial, multi¬national ten-piece Brixton band who have developed a strong reputation over the past two years...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Shouka
There hasn’t been much news from the Western Sahara recently. But all is not quiet on the Western front. Shouka...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Ginga: The Sound of Brazilian Football
Ginga is a kind of football-specific Brazilian equivalent of ‘mojo,’ which the national team seem to have lost during the...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Brasilianos 2
This is one of those albums on which you can’t help but be impressed by the virtuoso musician¬ship. Bandleader Hamilton...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Kasatchok Superstar
Cultured Viennese folk don’t much like playing catch-up to Berliners, and with Berlin producing so much good music these days...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
The Broken Tongue
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
The much talked-about Yiddish revival has one of its most eloquent advocates in the American accord¬ionist and Berlin resident, Daniel...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
