Reviews
The Soul of Bollywood
Botown should be commended for endeavouring to avoid the mush of a vague world beats formula and instead focusing decisively...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
N'Diale
Jacky Molard Quartet & Foune Diarra Trio
The musics of West Africa and the Celtic world might appear unlikely bedfellows but they're far from strangers. We've heard...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Chaiyya Chaiyya
Bollywood Brass Band feat Rafaqat Ali Khan
This fourth outing by the Bollywood Brass Band – a British, multicultural celebration of the Bollywood sound – sees two...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Balkanica! v2
This album is the second in the Balkan-ica! series from Green Queen Music, an Italian label run by Luca Gatti...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Owiny Sigoma Band
Having trawled through leftfield Brazil and captured the cutting edge in Cuba, clubland's favourite diminutive DJ/producer Gilles Peterson has now...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Ashk'farad
Listening to these 65 minutes worth of takeaway klezmer interspersed with the odd Ladino number, the words solid, diligent and...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Future Trad Collective
The Future Trad Collective's music has the aura of a mighty jam session. The creation of three musicians who all...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Together
The Mercury Music Prize – arguably Britain's premier album award – has a reputation for destroying rather than making careers....
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Palermo Snow
There's quite a gap between Traveller's Prayer, released in 1998, and this latest album, which Renbourn describes as ‘a departure...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Roots of Life
Here's some Malian-inspired musical innovation from an unlikely source: maverick dance music producers Los Chicharrons, also known as the odd...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
