Reviews
Future Trad Collective
The Future Trad Collective's music has the aura of a mighty jam session. The creation of three musicians who all...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Together
The Mercury Music Prize – arguably Britain's premier album award – has a reputation for destroying rather than making careers....
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Palermo Snow
There's quite a gap between Traveller's Prayer, released in 1998, and this latest album, which Renbourn describes as ‘a departure...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Roots of Life
Here's some Malian-inspired musical innovation from an unlikely source: maverick dance music producers Los Chicharrons, also known as the odd...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Sigh of the Moor
This simply gorgeous self-released album from intriguing UK-based crew the Jadid Ensemble, based in north-west England, leaves you wanting to...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Lung Capacity
Bands that play with smiles on their faces and tongues in their cheeks are often mistrusted by the brow-furrowing serious...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Una y Otra Vez
Bruno Garcia is very much of the school of Manu Chao: a punk rocker in Paris in the 1980s of...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Radio Babel
Watcha Clan are a ragtag collective of musicians from the Mediterranean port town of Marseille. France's third city is a...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Bold As Light
I’m not sure whether meeting Stephan Micus would be a revelatory or mind-numbing experi¬ence. For sure, he must have one...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
The Rhythmagic Orchestra
Compelling, Latin jazz-leaning stuff from some of Britain and Cuba’s finest, this is released on the ever-intriguing Impossible Ark imprint...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
