Reviews
Con Todo el Mundo
Take the surf versions of Middle Eastern folk tunes ‘Misirlou’ and ‘Hava Nagila’. Blend them with dub, 1960s Iranian pop...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Ondas
French producer Teacher Jekyll's third album is a multi-generational, multicultural affair with an emphasis on traditions from Cape Verde, Brazil,...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
The Turbans
This is an album that surprises, impresses and leaves you feeling slightly giddy – like a kosh over the head,...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Moondog: New Sound
Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin) was an eccentric American composer whose music straddled baroque classical and Native American tribalism. He received...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
De Rio a Rio
Firstly there's that wordplay in the group's name; however, it's unclear if there is anything else that solid beyond the...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Universalists
What might Jimi Hendrix have sounded like if he had enjoyed access to a library of global sounds that were...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Keys to Friendship
Aeham Ahmad meets Edgar Knecht
This is an album with quite a story behind it. The Syrian musician Aeham Ahmad played piano in the refugee...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Visit Malphino
The continuing globalisation of cumbia has seen it travel from Colombia's Caribbean coast to urban dance halls, stadium rock shows,...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
Sun Gong/Bring on the Sun
Four decades ago, zitherist Edward Larry Gordon made his debut on a small US label. Then, renamed Laraaji, he collaborated...
Reviewed in issue June/2018
