Reviews

Paradis

Urban Turban & Shamim

Swedish schlager songs sung in Farsi? Behind this utterly bizarre confluence of styles is a clever comment on the state...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

The Book of Transfigurations

Dálava

American singer Julia Úlehla and guitarist Aram Bajakian are the core of Dálava, a Vancouver-based collective. Their source material lies...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

EntreMundos

Nomade Orquestra

To the cornucopia of great music deriving from today's São Paulo, this ten-piece band now add their fine second album....

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Afrolaito

Marinah

Former Ojos de Brujo singer Marina Abad – who rebranded herself Marinah since going solo in 2013 – has continued...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Strange Circles

Bokanté

This new ensemble's name, Bokanté, is an apt summing-up of their sound. The word means ‘Exchange’ in Creole – the...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Knoblauch Scharf

Knoblauch Klezmer Band

Like all good funeral parties, the first, and seemingly last, full album from this group can be considered a mourning...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Ribbons

Justin Adams feat Anneli Drecker

From his solo debut with 2001's Desert Road through to his production work with Tinariwen, collaborations with Robert Plant and...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Sufi Spirit

Rocqawali

You may be forgiven for approaching this with trepidation: a Danish rock‘n’roll band playing along with qawwali (the sacred music...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

We are Connected

Jan Wouter Oostenrijk

Traditional Western rock, blues and jazz seamlessly meet the music of the Maghreb in Jan Wouter Oostenrijk's latest and fourth...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Lamomali

Lamomali

There is an uncredited English saying: ‘Be not deceived with the appearance of things, for show is not substance.’ It...

Reviewed in issue August/2017