Reviews
Routes
Often when a band boasts of playing a mix of dub, punk, jazz, ska and Balkan music it means they...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Sibérie M’était Contéee
Chao told his biographer Peter Culshaw that he had always regarded French music as “bullshit”; for years he refused to...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Amour, T’es Là?
A weird one. A US-based Greek female singer and student of film soundtrack writing has taken it upon herself to...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Wed 21
The Björk comparisons are understandable. Juana Molina’s music layers fractious dance beats and discordant sounds together with her own multi-tracked...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
In the Shadow of Leaves
Randolph Matthews & Byron Johnston
A suspended cultural identity looms over this debut disc by vocalist Matthews and guitarist Johnston. This may or may not...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Mundum Renovavit
The Dutch word windstreken can be translated as ‘points of the wind’ and ‘corners of the world’. The ensemble consists...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
A South Asian Suite
There are many bear-traps that Indian fusion records tend to fall into – pretentiousness, over-complexity and cod spirituality being among...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Aljawal
A refined product courtesy of two years of musical interplay, Aljawal is a distinctive and sonically potent album, unlike anything...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Red Hot + Fela
This is the latest in the series of albums that the Red Hot organisation have released to raise money and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
