Reviews
World Routes: On The Road
World Routes (currently broadcast on Sunday evenings) is BBC Radio 3’s flagship world music programme. And to my knowledge, there...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film
Divorced from the documentary that it soundtracks [reviewed on p103], Sounds And Silence effectively becomes a plain and simple ECM...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Sistema Subversiva
Don't expect to hear any mint-breathed sighing, loose-hipped swaying and general ‘la-la-la-ing’ from Da Cruz. Bossa nova and its anodyne...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Traders
The common thread in this improbable but delightful fusion of the traditional music of Scotland and West Africa is created...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
The Peasant Girl
Don't be put off by the contrived photo on the cover of this eclectic double CD: much love has gone...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Sachal Jazz
This CD has been featured all over the place – CNN, the BBC and Al-Jazeera – and has already been...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Live in Concert
Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory
Fiddler Chris Stout comes from Fair Isle, which lies between Orkney and Shetland, north-east of the Scottish mainland, famous for...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Rock the Tabla
It's the Egyptian tabla that's the one presented here: the single-skinned goblet drum, aka darbuka, dumbek, among its many names....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Aam Zameen: Common Ground
This really shouldn't work. Take the opening track, ‘Musst Musst’, made famous by the classic version by Nusrat Fateh Ali...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Mercato
It only took one minute for the Imperial Tiger Orchestra's debut album to prove its worth to this critic. It...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
