Reviews
Gadjistan Zizany
There’s no question that this spirited bunch of Barcelona-based musicians are more than proficient at churning out a lightweight, light-hearted...
Reviewed in issue March/2012
Singing Between the Lines
Two years after his CD and DVD live studio outing Ja s s i What Happened? comes a new release...
Reviewed in issue March/2012
Sixth Sense
The Taal Tantra Experience with Tanmoy Bose
This is Taal Tantra’s second album, in which Indian and German musicians combine raga and jazz, fusing European and Indian...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
Guts, Lungs & Bones
Unfortunately this album doesn’t quite have the visceral clout promised by its excellent Waitsian title, although it’s hard to put...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
Malkradessa
The Bissau Guinean singer Venilio Evangelista Pan was born in Portugal and lives in London. This, his debut album, is...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
Sunlightsquare presents Britannia Shing-A-Ling
There’s a riot going on in Sunlightsquare. This unapologetically ambitious album from this sprawling UK collective sees some 25 musicians...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
A Retrospective
‘If the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band,’ commented Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader of...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
20,000 Miles
Doug Cox is a Canadian spiritual cousin to Ry Cooder: a bottleneck guitarist steeped in the blues, he finds common...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
Aberaeron Sunset
What, I was asking myself, would a crossover South Asian/ UK album thought up in a Welsh caravan sound like?...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
