Reviews

Balkan Reggae

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Mahala Rai Banda – the youthful Bucharest Gypsy band who mix brass and strings – are no newcomers to being...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Ouesh Hada?

Temenik Electric

From the vibrant multi-cultural melting pot of Marseille comes the debut album from Temenik Electric, a flamboyant Arabic rock outing...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Troubles

Dirtmusic

Hugo Race and Chris Eckman have previous form in Mali. The duo behind Dirtmusic are both rock musicians of some...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Gasandji

Gasandji

Na Lingui Yo' (‘I love you’ in the Congolese language Lingala) is undoubtedly the big hit of this debut album...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Gondwana Dawn

Gondwana Dawn

In paleogeography, Gondwana is the name given to the landmass that 200 million years ago joined what we now know...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Leave to Remain

Wara

With members of the group hailing from Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Ghana, Congo, Spain, Argentina, not to mention the UK, it's...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Afro Future Funk

Mamud Band

One of the glories of modern world music is the way in which global rhythms have become totally cosmopolitan. To...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Spellbound

Trilok Gurtu

It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Nation II Nation

A Tribe Called Red

Hailing from Ottawa, the Canadian trio A Tribe Called Red have returned with a follow-up to their self-titled 2012 debut....

Reviewed in issue July/2013

From Istanbul to Ceuta with a Smile

Nicolas Meier

This album would be great to listen to in a battered, grand old taxi speeding along some dusty road in...

Reviewed in issue July/2013