Reviews
Ifetayo
Soundway Records have an impressive catalogue of rare groove reissues, many of them from Africa. But although there are African...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2012
Kai Tu Užaha?
I thought I was familiar with most forms of Gypsy music but this album, recorded by the Finnish Roma singer...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
Hole in the Universe
The banality of bureaucracy is not an exciting subject for a song but put through the creative mangle that is...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2012
Returning Minimalism: New Works for Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar
A bird sings and insects hum in the background. A metallophone begins playing a rapid three-beat pattern. Another, played with...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: June/2012
La Onda Vampi
Vampisoul really knows how to mash it up. The Spanish label, celebrating a decade this year, has to be one...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
Empêche-Nous!
France's favourite southerners are back with more balladry about life in the port city of La Ciotat, near Marseille. This...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012
Mare Nostrum
Jordi Savall is a leading specialist in early music, the styles of the 12th to 18th century. In those times...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2012
Binari: Well Wishing Music
As those who have seen the group live know, Dulsori mix old and new, but they do so with authority,...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: June/2012
Radio Salone
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone's reggae band, the Refugee All Stars, emerged from the refugee camps born of the brutal civil war that...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2012
