Reviews
Beyond Destruction
This album has an impressive cast list. To name but three: Iraqi vocalist, and composer Aida Nadeem, Tunisian oud player...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2013
The Cook, the Clown, the Monk & the Accordionist
London-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi ventures here into the porous terrain that lies somewhere between folk, classical, jazz and improvisation....
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2013
Holts and Hovers
Three Cane Whale comprise Spiro member Alex Vann, Get The Blessing’s trumpeter Pete Judge and guitarist Paul Bradley of the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2013
African Griot Groove
If you travel around the villages of West Africa, you will hear music played with a raw and earthy vigour;...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2013
Conscription
The deranged frontman known only as Mike H led his motley Danish crew The Sexican across their debut album The...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2013
Knock Knock Get Up
These days the indie-folk gimmick is so over-used that it's easy to dismiss any band that daims to have folk/roots...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2013
Bright Sunny South
And now for something completely and compellingly different. Sam Amidon is an extraordinarily creative musician, a London-based Vermont native and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2013
Tajikistan: Classical Music and Songs
This suite of mainly instrumental music is an exemplary presentation of Tajik art music. Abdurashidov plays the sato, a (very)...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2013
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Brazil
Taking a liberal approach to what defines psychedelic music, this latest offering from Rough Guides takes slightly ‘out there’ tracks...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2013
London is the Place for Me: The Music of Young Black London, 5 & 6
This double-CD release follows three engaging, high-quality compilations of Caribbean and African music in 50s Britain from the specialist label...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: July/2013
