Reviews
Amour, T’es Là?
A weird one. A US-based Greek female singer and student of film soundtrack writing has taken it upon herself to...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Wed 21
The Björk comparisons are understandable. Juana Molina’s music layers fractious dance beats and discordant sounds together with her own multi-tracked...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
In the Shadow of Leaves
Randolph Matthews & Byron Johnston
A suspended cultural identity looms over this debut disc by vocalist Matthews and guitarist Johnston. This may or may not...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Mundum Renovavit
The Dutch word windstreken can be translated as ‘points of the wind’ and ‘corners of the world’. The ensemble consists...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
A South Asian Suite
There are many bear-traps that Indian fusion records tend to fall into – pretentiousness, over-complexity and cod spirituality being among...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Aljawal
A refined product courtesy of two years of musical interplay, Aljawal is a distinctive and sonically potent album, unlike anything...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Red Hot + Fela
This is the latest in the series of albums that the Red Hot organisation have released to raise money and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Now
The Swedish fiddler Ellika Frisell and the Senegalese kora player Solo Cissokho won a BBC Radio 3 Award for World...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Texas Gypsy Fire
Japanese dub, Taiwanese rap, Mexican ska… we’ve heard them all. And, in the mix-and-match free-for-all of world music, there are...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
