Reviews

Mabrouk

Majid Bekkas

The polyrhythms of Gnawa music have long lent themselves to jazz: Pharaoh Sanders, Don Cherry and Bill Laswell all famously...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011

From Night to the Edge of Day

Azam Ali

The birth of her first child inspired the Iranian-born Canadian resident Azam Ali to record an album of lullabies as...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011

Cecil Sharp Project

Various Artists

Earlier this year, a remarkable ‘Who's Who’ of the new British folk scene assembled in London's Cecil Sharp House. Lined...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011

In Trance

JuJu

Justin Adams is perhaps the busiest man in world music at the moment. In the past few months alone he's...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011

VisaFree

RotFront

A Ukrainian, two Hungarians, an Australian and five Germans walk into a recording studio, and… well, I wish I could...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2011

Rumbamazigha

Rumbamazigha

Seven musicians gather to create a fusion of Catalan and Amazigh music. Barcelona record label Taller de Musics announces that...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Wednesday

Kayaan

The cover artwork of this collaborative project very helpfully pigeonholes it as ‘Arabic jazz-rap’. It doesn't deceive. The formula pits...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Last Days of Meaning

Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney is as much a philosopher as he is a composer. This time, his thoughtful and melodic songs are...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Dub Zealand

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Reggae recognises no borders and ever since Bob Marley performed a legendary one-off show in Auckland in 1979, the irie...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Gypsy in a Tree

Sanda

Sanda Weigl has a strong, warm voice with a touch of grit – just right for the lautari Gypsy songs...

Reviewed in issue July/2011