Reviews
Mokum
To celebrate their 15th anniversary, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band wanted to release a special album that would offer a retrospective...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Just Have to Grow
Co-produced by Nick ‘Midas Touch’ Page (Dub Colossus, Syriana) and recorded live in one room over two days at the...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Dust and Dirt
Kiwi reggae has long forged a name for itself domestically, but it’s only in the last decade or so that...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Eastern Bloc Funk Experience
The compilation label Nascente have done a brilliant job in compiling hot funk albums from across the globe – my...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Ravi Shankar: Symphony
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Anoushka Shankar
Ravi Shankar’s Symphony received its world premiere in London’s Royal Festival Hall in July 2010. This is a live recording...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Parfum de Jasmin
There is something very Western-centric and media-friendly about the fashion for naming popular uprisings after colours, seasons and horticulture. It’s...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Dr Dee
It's the reign of Elizabeth I and Dr John Dee, having survived imprisonment by bloody Mary, is now court astrologer,...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Les Rives
There’s a history to this project. The prolific guitarist Titi Robin has long collaborated with Gypsy, Indian, and qawwali artists....
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Hackney Vibes
Given the colonial links to the Maghreb and the large North African diaspora in France, it’s no surprise that the...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
A Curva Da Cintura (Mali-Brasil)
Arnaldo Antunes, Toumani Diabaté & Edgard Scandurra
After AfroCubism's Grammy-winning Mali Cuba album, are we about to see a spate of similarly styled cash-ins? Well, no worries,...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
