Reviews
Power in the Blood
Buffy Sainte-Marie, now 74 and into her 51st year as a recording artist, was born in Canada to Cree parents....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Light
Midival Punditz consist of Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj, the pioneering electronica artists who have been described as ‘India's Chemical...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Pomegranate Tiles
Dafarahn is an interesting pair of European musicians researching the art music of the Middle East. Francesco Iannuzzelli is an...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
This is a new recording of old-school highlife and Afrobeat from one of Ghana's great vocalists, backed by a scorching...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
II
L’Orchestre du Montplaisant are a London-based quartet, although their members are originally from Russia and France, which makes for an...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Soul of Bengal
The group presenting this charming collection of Bangladeshi music lives up to its name. It is indeed an all-star cast:...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Home
There's an intimate warmth and bloom about this classical sitar album, which is largely thanks to Anoushka Shankar's sublime playing,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Brazilika
If you’re into Brazilian jazz then you will most certainly know about Far Out Recordings, the London-based label that have...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways
The newest instalment of Smithsonian Folkways’ splendid vault-raiding Classic series compiles 25 songs written between 1836 and 1947 about topical...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
