Reviews
Traveller
Anoushka Shankar's debut album for Deutsche Grammophon, best known for its heavyweight Western classical music, shows a terrific assurance which...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Cinema
Cinema is fusionist Kale's fifth and most ambitious album and was recorded in New Delhi, New York, Mumbai, and Ibiza...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
A Night in Abyssinia
A Night in Abyssinia is based on a risky premise. On the one hand, turning in a mostly instrumental set...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Mavra Froudia
Stelios Petrakis, Efrén López & Bijan Chemirani
Very slick and polished, imma– culately performed and recorded, and full of dance-like energy, there's nothing to dislike about this...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
A Musical Journey
Linde Nijland & Bert Ridderbos
Wearing a veil, Dutch folk singer Linde Nijland performs the traditional ‘The Snows they Melt the Soonest’ in an Iranian...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
The Best of Quantic
Quantic has taken the world music, clubbing and Latin scenes by stealth. A musician, DJ and record producer based in...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Green Grass Blue Grass
There've been many attempts to meld Ireland's traditional music with the disparate conflation that forms modern-day American bluegrass, most recently...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Invite
The Trio Chemirani is made up of a father and two brothers – all Iranian percussionists – based in France....
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Baladi Blues 2
Guy Schalom is one of the UK's leading percussionists in klezmer and Arabic music, having played with the Klezmatics, Natacha...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Street Clan
It's difficult to know exactly what to make of Street Clan, Invisible System's second album, as it's overall such a...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
