Reviews
Don’t Keep Silent
The title of this New Zealand funk/fusion outfit’s second album couldn’t be more appropriate. Across the album’s 11 tracks Batucada...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Quest Under Capricorn
Whilst Shaolin Afronaut’s debut, Flight of The Ancients, wore its influences somewhat overtly on its sleeve, their follow-up sees them...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Dancing on Roses, Dancing on Cinders
The raw brass band music that accompanies all important celebrations in the Balkans has been given a serious spit and...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Oud Vibrations
Ahmed Abdul Malik & Chick Ganimian
At first glance this punning titled reissue of two rare ‘East meets West’ jazz LPs from the late 1950s may...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Solidarity
A multicultural album recorded by a group of international expats and Canadian natives on a surplus Tascam eight-track tape machine...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Hidden Legacy
Eclectic would be the right word to describe this offering from Cleveland-based Eastern European collective Harmonia. For once, the term...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
East North
There has always been an eclectic tinge, and a flair for the complex and wildly virtuosic in Russian jazz. This...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
The Rough Guide to Undiscovered World
The Rough Guide to Un dis cove red World is a showcase compilation. It is the CD companion to record...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
A Great Day For The Race
Flap! (yes, the exclamation mark is part of the band name) hail from Melbourne and were discovered by Marcus Britton...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
