Reviews
Sachal Jazz
This CD has been featured all over the place – CNN, the BBC and Al-Jazeera – and has already been...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Live in Concert
Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory
Fiddler Chris Stout comes from Fair Isle, which lies between Orkney and Shetland, north-east of the Scottish mainland, famous for...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
On The Move
Firstly (as he must surely be heartily sick of hearing by now), this Colin Farrell is not the famously rowdy...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Rock the Tabla
It's the Egyptian tabla that's the one presented here: the single-skinned goblet drum, aka darbuka, dumbek, among its many names....
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
King Jammy's Selector's Choice Vol 2
King Jammy, Jamaican DJ and producer, began his career under the tutelage of dub legend King Tubby before setting up...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Hugh Masekela Presents: Songs Of Migration
Last year, Hugh Masekela and the theatre director James Ngcobo staged Songs Of Migration at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Ups and Downs
Zoox are Linda Game, Jo May and Becky Menday, who play a range of esoteric instruments including djembé, congas, balafon,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Lady Diamond
Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson
Surprisingly, this is the debut album by a duo that already has a long pedigree. Griffith and Hampson have been...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Sem Nostalgia
Brazilian Lucas Santtana's first UK release contains a mixture of hyperactive mash-ups, soothing melodies and funky guitar workouts, all initially...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Romeo & Leila
After the success of her critically acclaimed album of last year, Ghalia Benali Sings Oum Kalthoum, her 2006 album Romeo...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
