Reviews
Wanabni
Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
Palestinian singer and oud player Kamilya Jubran first teamed up with German trumpeter and electronics artist Werner Hasler for 2003’s...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Katla
Contrary to what the band’s name – and the opening track ‘Papa Chajes’ – suggest, klezmer is not really what...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
A Jamaican In Cairo
There are those who will tell you that we are witnessing the sonic equivalent of Francis Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Yobadi
How can you justify subjecting the raw power of traditional Moroccan Gnawa music to a pernickety, pimple-picking, over-intellectualised version of...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Open on Sundays
You'll get it cheaper at Duck Soup’s Gramophone and Cycle Stores, 18 Station Road, West Croydon.’ So proclaims the sign...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Awalin
Steve Shehan is a man who has been there and done that, earning his crust playing percussion with Paul Simon,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Diasporas
Ibrahim Maalouf’s family fled the civil war in Lebanon in the early 1980s to settle in the suburbs of Paris....
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Room of Wonders
Where music explorer Bela Fleck once trod unknown ground with the banjo, taking it into jazz and popular music, Canadian...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
UNIKO
Kronos Quartet with Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen
Kimmo Pohjonen is not just one of the world's finest accordion players, he's a composer of panoramic vision, a consummate...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
21 Spices
Trilok Gurtu with Simon Phillips & NDR Big Band
Setting aside his wonderfully adventurous series of world music fusions, 21 Spices finds Trilok Gurtu returning to his early jazz...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
