Reviews
State of Mind
Despite a career spanning two decades and counting, Zion Train show no signs of slowing down. Emerging out of the...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Mujeres de Agua
Multi-Grammy award-winner Javier Limón is renowned for his work in the flamenco genre; he has made albums with the likes...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Al-Zarqa
While the Cairo-born musician Ali Khattab is described as a flamenco guitarist, it's better to think of him simply as...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
The Rip Tide
Unlike previous Beirut albums, there's precious little evidence of Zach Condon's cosmopolitan taste in music here. Gone are the mariachi...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Traveller
Anoushka Shankar's debut album for Deutsche Grammophon, best known for its heavyweight Western classical music, shows a terrific assurance which...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Cinema
Cinema is fusionist Kale's fifth and most ambitious album and was recorded in New Delhi, New York, Mumbai, and Ibiza...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
A Night in Abyssinia
A Night in Abyssinia is based on a risky premise. On the one hand, turning in a mostly instrumental set...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Mavra Froudia
Stelios Petrakis, Efrén López & Bijan Chemirani
Very slick and polished, imma– culately performed and recorded, and full of dance-like energy, there's nothing to dislike about this...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
A Musical Journey
Linde Nijland & Bert Ridderbos
Wearing a veil, Dutch folk singer Linde Nijland performs the traditional ‘The Snows they Melt the Soonest’ in an Iranian...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
The Best of Quantic
Quantic has taken the world music, clubbing and Latin scenes by stealth. A musician, DJ and record producer based in...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
