Reviews
A Thousand Thoughts
David Harrington and his colleagues have long been intrepid world music adventurers, expanding the string quartet repertoire with works from...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Gala de la Chanson Francarabe
This wonderfully savoury compilation comes from a field still relatively little known in world music circles, in spite of the...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
The Red Book
The tracks ‘Aurora’ and ‘1420’ from the second album by Arthur Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe were beamed into space as part...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Color
Essentially this is a fusion album of French accordion café music with a Congolese slant. Papa Noel is a veteran...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Inner Fire
A beefy baritone sax hails the return of the little big band from Ottowa. Whatever they've done to that 8-track...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Almah
Bassist Avishai Cohen is one of those rare jazz musicians who is comfortable playing across multiple genres, and he has...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Y Bardd Anfarwol
In October 2011, Welsh musician Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, journeyed to the Chinese city of Chengdu, spending six...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
The South African Meeting of Viramundo
After standing down as Brazil's minister of culture, the legendary singer Gilberto Gil undertook a southern hemisphere tour to Australia...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Saulem Ai
A galloping, multicoloured horse brightens the cover of Saulem Ai (My Beloved), an appropriate emblem for the music of this...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
