Reviews

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

One Blinding Dusky Dusk

Whiskey Moonface

Born out of a meeting of musical minds in an East London pub, this debut album is straight from the...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Benyoro

Benyoro

‘What we really do is play praise music; we’ve just sped it up a little,’ explains Sam Dickey, guitarist and...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Oj Tak!

Chłopcy Kontra Basia

Frightened of Polish music by the scraping fiddles and raw vocals of the Warsaw Village Band? Then maybe the mellower,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

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