Reviews
The Peasant Girl
Don't be put off by the contrived photo on the cover of this eclectic double CD: much love has gone...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Sachal Jazz
This CD has been featured all over the place – CNN, the BBC and Al-Jazeera – and has already been...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Live in Concert
Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory
Fiddler Chris Stout comes from Fair Isle, which lies between Orkney and Shetland, north-east of the Scottish mainland, famous for...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Rock the Tabla
It's the Egyptian tabla that's the one presented here: the single-skinned goblet drum, aka darbuka, dumbek, among its many names....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Aam Zameen: Common Ground
This really shouldn't work. Take the opening track, ‘Musst Musst’, made famous by the classic version by Nusrat Fateh Ali...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Mercato
It only took one minute for the Imperial Tiger Orchestra's debut album to prove its worth to this critic. It...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
State of Mind
Despite a career spanning two decades and counting, Zion Train show no signs of slowing down. Emerging out of the...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Mujeres de Agua
Multi-Grammy award-winner Javier Limón is renowned for his work in the flamenco genre; he has made albums with the likes...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Al-Zarqa
While the Cairo-born musician Ali Khattab is described as a flamenco guitarist, it's better to think of him simply as...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
The Rip Tide
Unlike previous Beirut albums, there's precious little evidence of Zach Condon's cosmopolitan taste in music here. Gone are the mariachi...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
