Reviews

The Island of Dr Electrico

The Bombay Royale

With a period cinematic sound, flamboyant stage presence and a band name that feels like a lost Ian Fleming novel,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Beauty in the Dirt

Cory Seznec

Cory Seznec takes the formula he developed with folk trio Groanbox – Americana with global twists – and sets out...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Indiamore

Chassol

The first track on pianist and composer Christophe Chassol's new album exists almost to un-prepare you for the creative explosion...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Samba Prelúdio

Bossarenova Trio

Samba Prelúdio is, on the face of it, an attempt to find common ground between the great Brazilian songbook and...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Al Qantara: The Bridge

Benjamin Taubkin

Southern Morocco has become a hot-house of cultural fusion, partly due to the number of foreign musicians playing and working...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Grit

Martyn Bennett

It's hard to believe it's been 11 years since Martyn Bennett's Grit was first released. The last album recorded before...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

The Other Side

Ilhan Ersahin's Wonderland

Born in Sweden from a Turkish family, saxophonist Ilhan Ersahin works hard creating and promoting new sounds and events in...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Cosmic

Shammi Pithia

This multi-talented composer, producer and musician emerges from the same British Asian mould as Nitin Sawhney and Talvin Singh and...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Surya: Chants of Light

Nadaka & Gopika

Vedic chanting – mantras sung in the original Sanskrit – is one of the most beautiful, stimulating, and transcendental musical...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Live at Lagny Jazz Festival

Carmen Souza

There aren’t many Cape Verdean diaspora artists with the audacity to segue between Cesaria Evora's ‘Sodade’ and the Sound of...

Reviewed in issue October/2014