Reviews

Benyoro

Benyoro

‘What we really do is play praise music; we’ve just sped it up a little,’ explains Sam Dickey, guitarist and...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Oj Tak!

Chłopcy Kontra Basia

Frightened of Polish music by the scraping fiddles and raw vocals of the Warsaw Village Band? Then maybe the mellower,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

The Island of Dr Electrico

The Bombay Royale

With a period cinematic sound, flamboyant stage presence and a band name that feels like a lost Ian Fleming novel,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Beauty in the Dirt

Cory Seznec

Cory Seznec takes the formula he developed with folk trio Groanbox – Americana with global twists – and sets out...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Indiamore

Chassol

The first track on pianist and composer Christophe Chassol's new album exists almost to un-prepare you for the creative explosion...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Samba Prelúdio

Bossarenova Trio

Samba Prelúdio is, on the face of it, an attempt to find common ground between the great Brazilian songbook and...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Al Qantara: The Bridge

Benjamin Taubkin

Southern Morocco has become a hot-house of cultural fusion, partly due to the number of foreign musicians playing and working...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Grit

Martyn Bennett

It's hard to believe it's been 11 years since Martyn Bennett's Grit was first released. The last album recorded before...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

The Other Side

Ilhan Ersahin's Wonderland

Born in Sweden from a Turkish family, saxophonist Ilhan Ersahin works hard creating and promoting new sounds and events in...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Cosmic

Shammi Pithia

This multi-talented composer, producer and musician emerges from the same British Asian mould as Nitin Sawhney and Talvin Singh and...

Reviewed in issue October/2014