Thankfully someone had the good sense to blow the dust off some tapes from this fantastic concert performed a decade...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Thomas McCarthy is an Irish Traveller who, when he was a child, lived on a site beneath the Westway, the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Iranian percussionist Keyvan Chemirani leads an impressive group, bringing together Persian mystical poetry and Breton laments – it's slightly similar...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Soundwalk Collective are self-proclaimed ‘sonic nomads.’ On Sons of the Wind they travel through Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Back in the early-1990s, when rave culture took off in the UK, many a party would have a dub room...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Moira Smiley has cemented her status as a musical polyglot with her latest release alongside her female choir Voco. Not...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Aziz Sahmaoui & The University of Gnawa
The first University of Gnawa release came in 2011, when Sahmaoui, a founder of Orchestre National de Barbès, brought together...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters
Robert Plant refreshingly continues to refuse to be defined by his past. Backed by his eclectic live band the Sensational...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Many listeners may have been drawn to the exuberant, complex percussion found in Guadaloupe by Kassav’, the long-lived Paris-based band...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
As is often the case with compilations, one obsesses not so much about the selection but rather about the missing...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
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