Reviews
Impuros Fanáticos
With Fumaça Preta having stormed the British critico-cultural barricades in spectacular fashion with their genre-mangling debut, it seems the hoary...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Sing Me Home
Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Ensemble in 2000 to explore the music of the cultures along the ancient...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Monistic Theory
When West African and Anglo-American musicians collaborate, the results are often heavily based on improvisation. The approach that goes ‘I’ll...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Débruit & Istanbul
Parisian producer Xavier Thomas, aka Débruit, burst onto the scene with his debut album From the Horizon in 2012. This...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Luxe
Yann Tambour is a French singer and composer who records under the name Encre and also Stranded Horse. He plays...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Sad Songs About the End of Love
The Israel-born self-proclaimed ‘psychedelic folk singer-songwriter’ presents a collection of James Joyce poems about heartbreak, set to original melody and...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Ligerian Blues
Deltas are an acoustic duo made up of Lo’Jo's violinist and kora player Richard Bourreau and guitarist Vincent Erdeven, who...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Tropical Gypsy
The Balkan fusion group Molotov Jukebox, fronted by charismatic lead singer, accordionist and actress Natalia Tena, return with their second...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia
This sampler is a bountiful taster for World Music Network's ongoing series of global psychedelic compilations, skipping madly from land...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
