Reviews

Tuning Pegs & Fishing Line

Music Cycles

Albums marketed as collaborations between world music artists and musicians from the developed world are often subject to the dreaded...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Serious Time

Mungo's Hi-Fi

With 15 tracks of solid dancehall reggae, Glasgow's Mungo's Hi Fi didn’t mince their words when they named their third...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

310 Lunes

Lo'Jo

Is it really true that 310 moons have waxed and waned since Denis Péan’s raggle-taggle bunch first brought us their...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Amansara

Chancha Via Circuito

Chancha Via Circuito is one of a group of producers that emerged from Buenos Aires in the mid-2000s as part...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Sheema

Sheema Mukherjee

A veteran of Transglobal Underground and Imagined Village, the British sitar player Mukherjee has released her first solo album in...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Fofoulah

Fofoulah

With solid roots in West African sabar drumming, Fofoulah blend multiple genres to create a complex fusion of modern pop,...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Marshall Allen Presents Sun Ra & His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra

Sun Ra

This is a real treat. If you’re not familiar with Sun Ra then you are missing out on one of...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Real World 25

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Real World began life in 1989 with Passion, the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ, scored...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Tango

Yasmin Levy

You may well be apprehensive about hearing this. Israeli singer Yasmin Levy has a dramatic style that really suits the...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Between the Shadow and the Soul

Anna Phoebe

Violinist Anna Phoebe is a rock and commercial music veteran best known as a member of progressive rock outfit Trans-Siberian...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014