Reviews
Al Qantara: The Bridge
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nadir
Everything about this double album is pared down: the white and grey cover, marked by a single tiny dot; the...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
A Persian Dream
For those whose appetites might have been whetted by the standout performance of the Iranian Vahdat sisters, here's another contemporary...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
El Vol Dispers
Roots or world music artists who sing in English often met with a certain snobbery in the past, but multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Dot the Dragon's Eyes
The surest vindication of the praise bestowed on Cassel by the Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser is the final track of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
