Reviews
Follow My Lead, Lead Me to Follow
The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra
The history, folklore and present state of the natural world is the defining theme of this second full-length album from...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Strength to Survive: Deluxe EU Version
Last year, Virginia-based reggae outfit SOJA (Soldiers of Jah Army) released their fourth album Strength to Survive. The title was...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Live and Raw
Raw indeed. And a lot of that rawness is courtesy of Dennis Wint, Invisible System's frontman, best described as a...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Beneath a Level Head
It is fashionable for Western indie bands to use the rhythms and riffs of African music to spice up their...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Jagged Land
Brothers Cory and Yann Seznec have been playing music together for some 20 years, despite the fact that Cory lives...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Towards Other Worlds
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra formed in late 2007 at a series of late night Afrobeat sessions at a Leeds-based jazz venue...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Anatolian Alchemy
Arifa's second CD may not sweep you off your feet like an avalanche but, like the Pied Piper, these four...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
The Vortex Sessions
Benjamim Taubkin & Adriano Adewale
For the past decade and a half, Benjamim Taubkin's São Paulo-based Núcleo Contemporàneo label has been quietly nurturing some of...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Polka for Punks
Thirty-five years on, the anarchic spirit of punk keeps emerging in unlikely places, from the Beijing underground to R.U.T.A, the...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Desh
This is Jocelyn Pook's score for Akram Khan's dance piece Desh (Homeland) – an investigation into his Bangladeshi ancestry, premiered...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
