Reviews
Regions
The brains behind Ellis Island Sound (Pete Astor and David Sheppard) are those of musical veterans; they have been collaborating...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
9 Dead Alive
After lavishly augmenting their acoustic guitars with a swinging Cuban orchestra on 2012’s Area 52, the ever-popular Mexican duo return...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Pervane: Fl0yet fra Guds Hand
Turkey is famous as a meeting point of East and West. Fittingly, Pervane (Butterfly) is a piece that was created...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Alsahraa
On her first album, View from Somewhere, the London-based Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir explored the various musical traditions of Sudan....
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Beaucoup De Piment!
The principal styles of this debut are spunky Afrobeat and tepid jazz fusion, with the emphasis, disappointingly, on the latter....
Reviewed in issue June/2014
At Kriol Junction
It’s been five years since this multi¬cultural collective’s compelling and original debut album More Big Musik from Over There! But...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Africa Moo Baalu
Africa Moo Baalu means ‘Big People of Africa,’ and the album effectively reads as an open letter to leaders in...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Music from the Source
As they celebrate 25 years, this double CD is clear proof that Riverboat Records is Britain’s most prolific and wide-ranging...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
OK World
The clusters of sparse piano notes that open this disc suggest a contemplative acoustic music that might confound fans of...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
