Reviews
Sigh of the Moor
This simply gorgeous self-released album from intriguing UK-based crew the Jadid Ensemble, based in north-west England, leaves you wanting to...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Lung Capacity
Bands that play with smiles on their faces and tongues in their cheeks are often mistrusted by the brow-furrowing serious...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Una y Otra Vez
Bruno Garcia is very much of the school of Manu Chao: a punk rocker in Paris in the 1980s of...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Radio Babel
Watcha Clan are a ragtag collective of musicians from the Mediterranean port town of Marseille. France's third city is a...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Bold As Light
I’m not sure whether meeting Stephan Micus would be a revelatory or mind-numbing experi¬ence. For sure, he must have one...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
The Rhythmagic Orchestra
Compelling, Latin jazz-leaning stuff from some of Britain and Cuba’s finest, this is released on the ever-intriguing Impossible Ark imprint...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Wanabni
Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
Palestinian singer and oud player Kamilya Jubran first teamed up with German trumpeter and electronics artist Werner Hasler for 2003’s...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Katla
Contrary to what the band’s name – and the opening track ‘Papa Chajes’ – suggest, klezmer is not really what...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
A Jamaican In Cairo
There are those who will tell you that we are witnessing the sonic equivalent of Francis Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
Yobadi
How can you justify subjecting the raw power of traditional Moroccan Gnawa music to a pernickety, pimple-picking, over-intellectualised version of...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011
