Reviews
Music from Iraq
There's something reassuring about putting on a CD called Music from Iraq and it sounding just like that – music...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2015
Zoy Zoy
It would be unfair to say that our taste for the Touareg blues style known as assouf, pioneered by Tinariwen...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015
Pace of Mind
Continuing to incorporate new sounds into their experimental jazz, the award-winning Belgian trio Slang have teamed up with sitar prodigy...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: July/2015
Bottle
Bottle opens right up in your face, with the scrub-board electric guitar of Tim Eriksen fighting it out with Eliza...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2015
Kauai: The Arch of Heaven
Legendary American bassist and producer Bill Laswell is certainly no stranger to cross-cultural world music projects. His formidable production and...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2015
Disco at the Tavern
Celebrating 15 years of East Anglian hell-raising, this is a barnstorming set of tracks that deliver the trademark mix of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2015
Europa
This is a re-release of the Bavarian brass-band-cum-techno outfit's second album, although it's not entirely clear why an album that...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2015
Into the Well
It is surely a testament to the staying power of The Poozies that, although the all-female British folk group formed...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2015
The Sounds of India; Improvisations; Three Ragas
This double album features three older releases by Ravi Shankar, the legendary sitar maestro who died in 2012. He took...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2015
