Reviews
Awalin
Steve Shehan is a man who has been there and done that, earning his crust playing percussion with Paul Simon,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Diasporas
Ibrahim Maalouf’s family fled the civil war in Lebanon in the early 1980s to settle in the suburbs of Paris....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Room of Wonders
Where music explorer Bela Fleck once trod unknown ground with the banjo, taking it into jazz and popular music, Canadian...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
UNIKO
Kronos Quartet with Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen
Kimmo Pohjonen is not just one of the world's finest accordion players, he's a composer of panoramic vision, a consummate...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
21 Spices
Trilok Gurtu with Simon Phillips & NDR Big Band
Setting aside his wonderfully adventurous series of world music fusions, 21 Spices finds Trilok Gurtu returning to his early jazz...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Supersize
The third CD by the Prince Fatty collective – the name is producer Mike Pelanconi’s nod to King Tubby –...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
The Hour of Separation
Joe Tawadros’ last CD The Prophet was a delightful surprise, full of promise. In February 2010 the young Egyptian-Australian oud...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Black Robert
Since releasing theirsecond album, Brule Lentement [reviewedin #68], which wasinfluenced by TheClash as well as 1920s zydeco squeezebox supremo AmedeArdoin,...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
The Antiquated &The Arcane
Certain things give the roots revival and environmental con-sciousness a bad name. Those New Age shops full of joss sticks,...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Beyond Babylon
Arifa unites four Dutch and Belgian musicians who have roots in the Balkans and the Middle-East: Turkish and Dutch percussionist...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
