Reviews

UNITE: A Gathering of Strangers

Various Artists

Hamid Man Tu and Tim Whelan of Transglobal Underground have fashioned an ambitious pan-European project around the banner of UNITE...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Biyo (Water is Love)

Saba

Pop-culture history is littered with actors chancing their arm at cutting records, from Robert Mitchum’s dalliances with calypso through to...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

East Atlanta Passover Stomp

Fourth Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra

How can anyone not be intrigued by an album that begins with a track titled ‘Greater Lagos Wednesday Night Talmud...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Trans-Continental Hustle

Gogol Bordello

Everyone's favourite Gypsy punk outfit is back with their fifth album and yes, it's another big musical mash-up of klezmer,...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Dancylvania

The Baghdaddies

The Baghdaddies are nothing if not eclectic. This Geordie five-piece with Mesopotamian overtones and a Balkan brass bedrock have weaved...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Sleepless Nights

VM Bhatt & Matt Malley

Sleepless Nights is a palatable musical aperitif for those uninitiated into Indian classical music, as well as being pleasant drive¬time...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

PBS6

PBS6

Hatched by bodhran player Will Lang of folk-fusion group Park Bench Social Club and Newcastle-based guitarist and producer Tom Wright,...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Acoustic Accordions

Michael Nyman & Motion Trio

Motion Trio are three Polish accordion players: Janusz Wojtarowicz, Pawel Baranek and Marcin Galazyn. Since their debut CD, Pictures from...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Chaal Baby

Red Baraat

Hailing from überchic Brooklyn in the melting pot of New York City, Red Baraat have a studied multi-ethnic cool reminiscent...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Shoshan

Shye Ben-Tzur

Ready for something new and exciting? How about qawwali (Sufi devotional song), Rajasthani folk singing, Indian classical music, flamenco and...

Reviewed in issue June/2010