Reviews
Albion Voice
She's a one-woman show wrapped in the colours of leftfield folk pop, Indian strings, art ensemble music and a broad...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Human Nature
With a sound that reflects the diversity of their Brixton background, Soothsayers are finally gaining the recognition they've earned through...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Orient Noir: A West-Eastern Divan
In the saturated compilation market these days it’s all about packaging and presentation. The ‘noir’ concept by the German label...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Namaste
With song titles like ‘Transcendental Consciousness’, ‘Brhama-Vishnu-Shiva’ [sic] and ‘Om Shanti’, we are clearly in California meets India territory. Rahul...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Fangnawa Experience
Fanga & Maalem Abdallah Guinea
In an era where collaboration is the key to some of the most exciting musical styles around, some fusions remain...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Triode
Like Natacha Atlas, Laila Amezian was bom in Belgium to parents of Moroccan heritage. And like Atlas, she has spent...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Shuffle
The stompers of King Porter hail from the southern shores of the UK – they’re a seven-piece Brighton-based collective that...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Brothers in Bamako
The American folk¬blues guitarist Eric Bibb is hardly in the same legendary league as Ry Cooder or Taj Mahal. Nor...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Sketches of Africa
David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet once speculated on what Beethoven’s works might have sounded like if he’d been able...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Somewhere is Here!
The cover of the CD shows our two heroes – jazz guitarist Oren Neiman and rock guitarist Gilad Ben Zvi...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
