Reviews

Mosaïk

Vishtèn

Many artists from many different places feel that in order to bring contemporary audiences to traditional material, they need to...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Pura Vida Conspiracy

Gogol Bordello

It’d be a cliché to mention that salty yeast-based vegetarian spread in relation to whether one has a taste forHütz...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

OneZero

Nitin Sawhney

On April 6 this year, Sawhney recorded an unplugged session before a live audience direct to vinyl, without the safety...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Flight on Light

Manos Achalinotopoulos

‘New Age’ and ‘tranquil’ are the first words that come to mind in describing this disc from Greek clarinetist Manos...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Agam

Stuart Masters & Rishi Ranjan

This is an enjoyable, if not shatteringly novel, collaboration between a couple of musicians who met by chance in a...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

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