Reviews
Rocket Juice & The Moon
It's hard to underestimate the impact Damon Albarn has had on traditional concepts of what constitutes ‘world music’, via such...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Deep Roots Observer Style
Every musical genre has its golden age and there's many a reggae enthusiast who'll routinely cast a wistful eye back...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Song Hành
This is the first collaboration between the Vietnamese singer and instrumentalist Ngo Hong Quang and the Dutch composer and arranger...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Dub Me Tender Vols 1 & 2
The dub remix is a tricky thing to pull off. If you're trying to replicate the soupy yet cavernous sound...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Postcards from Home
Kuljit Bhamra, Jacqueline Shave & John Parricelli
The paradoxical title of this album – postcards are surely sent to home not from it – suggests the nature...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Give
The New York-based trio are at it again. But this time things are different – the band have grown up...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Corner of the World
The music of Solus3 is a delicate tracery of ethereal harp, rarefied gamelan, modal jazz, minimalist electronica, systems music, old-style...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
If Paradise
The GUO must be one of the more ambitious and fluid big-bands in existence. Led by trombonist Tony Haynes, it...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
No Stranger Here
Shubha Mudgal, Ursula Rucker & the Business Class Refugees
Initially I found the very idea of this album a little off-putting. A selection of 16th century Indian poems by...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
