Reviews
Leave to Remain
With members of the group hailing from Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Ghana, Congo, Spain, Argentina, not to mention the UK, it's...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Afro Future Funk
One of the glories of modern world music is the way in which global rhythms have become totally cosmopolitan. To...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Spellbound
It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Nation II Nation
Hailing from Ottawa, the Canadian trio A Tribe Called Red have returned with a follow-up to their self-titled 2012 debut....
Reviewed in issue July/2013
From Istanbul to Ceuta with a Smile
This album would be great to listen to in a battered, grand old taxi speeding along some dusty road in...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Journey Through Latin America
Much like tributes and electronica cover albums, classical celebrations of other genres are liable to prompt highly musical yawns or...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Azar
It’s something of a cliché to declare that a particular album would make a great soundtrack for a long journey....
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Om Suite Ohm
The latest instalment of Harry Manx’s strange journey – his ninth solo album – is an engaging affair that will...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Shruggy Ji
The US bhangra funk group Red Baraat is a collective of great musicians, knocking out hard-driven rhythms on dhol drum,...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
