Reviews
Surya: Chants of Light
Vedic chanting – mantras sung in the original Sanskrit – is one of the most beautiful, stimulating, and transcendental musical...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Live at Lagny Jazz Festival
There aren’t many Cape Verdean diaspora artists with the audacity to segue between Cesaria Evora's ‘Sodade’ and the Sound of...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Nadir
Everything about this double album is pared down: the white and grey cover, marked by a single tiny dot; the...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
A Persian Dream
For those whose appetites might have been whetted by the standout performance of the Iranian Vahdat sisters, here's another contemporary...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
El Vol Dispers
Roots or world music artists who sing in English often met with a certain snobbery in the past, but multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Dot the Dragon's Eyes
The surest vindication of the praise bestowed on Cassel by the Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser is the final track of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Addis to Omega
Those familiar with the heavily Ethiopian-influenced band heard on the last three Dub Colossus albums will hardly recognise this new...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Cycling Music
Richard Durrant is a brave man – he is attempting to tour his new album around the UK by bike....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
The Morning Key
Although their 2012 debut, Way on Up the Hill, was impressive enough to garner acclaim from the likes of Bob...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
