Reviews
A Curva Da Cintura (Mali-Brasil)
Arnaldo Antunes, Toumani Diabaté & Edgard Scandurra
After AfroCubism's Grammy-winning Mali Cuba album, are we about to see a spate of similarly styled cash-ins? Well, no worries,...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Paspanga
On every track of this album there's a rich and strange presence in the soundscape, be it a lick, a...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Voice of Ages
Nobody can say no to Paddy Moloney. From Mick Jagger to Ry Cooder, the list of unlikely collaborators corralled by...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Hole in the Universe
The banality of bureaucracy is not an exciting subject for a song but put through the creative mangle that is...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Schimpelsberger Circle of Sound
Soumik Datta is Britain's most exciting sarod player, both in Indian classical and new experimental music. This disc, with Austrian-born...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
The Mutiny
If there is a word that sums up this collective founded in Cambridge by husband-and-wife duo Joel Clayton (guitar and...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Rocket Juice & The Moon
It's hard to underestimate the impact Damon Albarn has had on traditional concepts of what constitutes ‘world music’, via such...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Deep Roots Observer Style
Every musical genre has its golden age and there's many a reggae enthusiast who'll routinely cast a wistful eye back...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Song Hành
This is the first collaboration between the Vietnamese singer and instrumentalist Ngo Hong Quang and the Dutch composer and arranger...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
