Reviews

Blind Note

Various Artists

Muziek Publique is a young label with just three CDs in their catalogue. Their latest, Blind Note, deserves to bring...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Cannibal Courtship

Dengue Fever

Dengue Fever's latest album is a step up from their last studio effort, Venus on Earth, in 2008. The band...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Tanita

Nuriya

Imagine a fusion of Latin, Middle Eastern and Arabic-flamenco music, with some hip– hop and reggae thrown in for good...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Electro Classical

Bickram Ghosh

The son of a leading Hindustani vocalist and revered tabla player, Bickram Ghosh first came to prominence with Ravi Shankar's...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Patagonia (OST)

Joseph LoDuca

How do you get Carlos Gardél, Duffy and Bryn Terfel into the same box? By making an awful film about...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Out of Genre

Jonathan Mayer

Bach on the sitar? Not quite what you might be expecting from this album from Jonathan Mayer. But I was...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Baba Toulenga

Diom De Kossa

I'd wager that very few musicians under scrutiny in these pages, in this issue or any other, have graced the...

Reviewed in issue July/2011

Helsinki: Shangri-La

Paleface

When was the last time you heard Finnish hip-hop? Been a while? Well, on the evidence of Paleface, you should...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Perpetual Motion

Amine & Hamza

Amine & Hamza's previous CD Things May Change managed to amaze and alarm in equal measure: a testosterone-driven, Oriental jazz...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

80s World Music Classics: When The World Was Young

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Like the compilers of this collection, back in the 1980s I turned to the sounds of Africa and other parts...

Reviewed in issue June/2011