Reviews

The Paris Session

The Touré-Raichel Collective

Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli keyboardist Idan Raichel have followed up their 2012 debut with an equally richly...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

In the Kingdom of Dub

Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77

Having paid his producer's dues from acid jazz groups through to Gregory Isaacs and the Sugarhill Gang, Mike Pelanconi's alter-ego...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Tuning Pegs & Fishing Line

Music Cycles

Albums marketed as collaborations between world music artists and musicians from the developed world are often subject to the dreaded...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Serious Time

Mungo's Hi-Fi

With 15 tracks of solid dancehall reggae, Glasgow's Mungo's Hi Fi didn’t mince their words when they named their third...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

310 Lunes

Lo'Jo

Is it really true that 310 moons have waxed and waned since Denis Péan’s raggle-taggle bunch first brought us their...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Amansara

Chancha Via Circuito

Chancha Via Circuito is one of a group of producers that emerged from Buenos Aires in the mid-2000s as part...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Sheema

Sheema Mukherjee

A veteran of Transglobal Underground and Imagined Village, the British sitar player Mukherjee has released her first solo album in...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Fofoulah

Fofoulah

With solid roots in West African sabar drumming, Fofoulah blend multiple genres to create a complex fusion of modern pop,...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Marshall Allen Presents Sun Ra & His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra

Sun Ra

This is a real treat. If you’re not familiar with Sun Ra then you are missing out on one of...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Real World 25

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Real World began life in 1989 with Passion, the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ, scored...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014