Reviews

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

Welcome Marhaba

Zen Zila

Soldiering on, decades after the demise of role models Carte de Sejour (Rachid Taha's old band), Zen Zila is perhaps...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Goshawk

Carole Pegg & Radik Tülüsh

Here's an intriguing prospect. Radik Tülüsh, an esteemed Tuvan throat singer and a member of the long-running group Huun Huur...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Lolo

Soneros All Stars

There is no way you are going to be able to sit still when listening to Swedish producer Jan Bogdan...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

La Rumba SoYo

Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca

This is the sixth album (excluding a retrospective compilation) of Ricardo Lemvo's Afro-Cuban music – a blend of salsa with...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Dois

Batida

Pedro Coquenão's musical vision began as a radio show tracing his Angolan roots from his adopted home of Portugal. Creative...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Dhaalu Raa

Ahmed Nasheed

The Maldives would be hard put to find a better soundtrack for its 50th-anniversary independence celebrations next year than this....

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Cor Amant

Tokso Folk String Quartet

The textures and timbres produced by this all-female string quartet are quite unlike any other. Tokso bring together the reedy,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014