Reviews
Electro Classical
The son of a leading Hindustani vocalist and revered tabla player, Bickram Ghosh first came to prominence with Ravi Shankar's...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
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Patagonia (OST)
How do you get Carlos Gardél, Duffy and Bryn Terfel into the same box? By making an awful film about...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Out of Genre
Bach on the sitar? Not quite what you might be expecting from this album from Jonathan Mayer. But I was...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Baba Toulenga
I'd wager that very few musicians under scrutiny in these pages, in this issue or any other, have graced the...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Helsinki: Shangri-La
When was the last time you heard Finnish hip-hop? Been a while? Well, on the evidence of Paleface, you should...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Perpetual Motion
Amine & Hamza's previous CD Things May Change managed to amaze and alarm in equal measure: a testosterone-driven, Oriental jazz...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
80s World Music Classics: When The World Was Young
Like the compilers of this collection, back in the 1980s I turned to the sounds of Africa and other parts...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
The Soul of Bollywood
Botown should be commended for endeavouring to avoid the mush of a vague world beats formula and instead focusing decisively...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
N'Diale
Jacky Molard Quartet & Foune Diarra Trio
The musics of West Africa and the Celtic world might appear unlikely bedfellows but they're far from strangers. We've heard...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
