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L’Orchestre du Montplaisant

L’Orchestre du Montplaisant are a London-based quartet, although their members are originally from Russia and France, which makes for an...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015

Colonised

Eardrum

London-based rhythm masters Eardrum have returned with their fourth full-length release, and what a return they’ve made. The collective was...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Bottle

Eliza Carthy & Tim Eriksen

Bottle opens right up in your face, with the scrub-board electric guitar of Tim Eriksen fighting it out with Eliza...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Big Sun

Chassol

Continuing his experiments with field recordings, Chassol here presents his third ‘ultrascore’, as he describes it, this time sourced from...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Disco at the Tavern

The Demon Barbers

Celebrating 15 years of East Anglian hell-raising, this is a barnstorming set of tracks that deliver the trademark mix of...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Taranta Project

Ludovico Einaudi

From the suspenseful orchestral arrangement and accordion drone that opens this diverse, deeply engaging album, it's obvious that this Turin-born...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

At Home: Live in Marciac

Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca

Recorded live at the Jazz in Marciac festival in south-west France, At Home is a meeting of both minds and...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Branches of the Same Tree

Rocky Dawuni

Ghanaian-born reggae singer and humanitarian activist Rocky Dawuni has released a collection of uplifting ballads inspired by his travels through...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

The Girl I Left Behind Me

India Electric Co

The hypnotic melodies, syncopated rhythms and pop hooks of this debut album from Devon folk duo Cole Stacey and Joseph...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

La Yave de mi Kaza

Kedem Ensemble

The album's title means ‘The Key to my Home’ in the Ladino language of the Jews that were expelled from...

Reviewed in issue June/2015