Reviews
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
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
