Reviews
The Birth of Jungle Cumbia
Since The Roots of Chicha gave Peru’s guitar-driven, bar-band chicha music worldwide exposure six years ago there has been a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2014
Les Nuits
This collaboration between the Anglo-Middle Eastern singer and Egyptian composer and multi-instrumentalist Samy Bishai emerged from a stage collaboration with...
Reviewed by Jim Cumming in issue: March/2014
Estampida
The ‘stampede’ in Victor Herrero’s album title is actually more of a gentle trot around the sweet major and sadder...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2014
Love Has Come for You
It’s interesting to ponder what the reception to this album would have been had it been released by a pair...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2014
Routes
Often when a band boasts of playing a mix of dub, punk, jazz, ska and Balkan music it means they...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2014
Flor di Bila
Cape Verdean musicians tend to go down one of two paths: one of interpretation, set on preserving musical forms from...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2014
Soutak
Aziza Brahim was born in the refugee camps of Algeria, an exile from her homeland in what the Saharawis call...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2014
Balkan Spirit
In the line of his previous productions, Jordi Savall’s Balkan Spirit covers another area of great musical traditions and intercultural...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Round 2
From the first notes this sounds like Nobel Prize material, if the committee ever decided that making people dance deserved...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Sibérie M’était Contéee
Chao told his biographer Peter Culshaw that he had always regarded French music as “bullshit”; for years he refused to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
