Reviews
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
Paspanga
On every track of this album there's a rich and strange presence in the soundscape, be it a lick, a...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Voice of Ages
Nobody can say no to Paddy Moloney. From Mick Jagger to Ry Cooder, the list of unlikely collaborators corralled by...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Hole in the Universe
The banality of bureaucracy is not an exciting subject for a song but put through the creative mangle that is...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Schimpelsberger Circle of Sound
Soumik Datta is Britain's most exciting sarod player, both in Indian classical and new experimental music. This disc, with Austrian-born...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
The Mutiny
If there is a word that sums up this collective founded in Cambridge by husband-and-wife duo Joel Clayton (guitar and...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
