Reviews
Three Cane Whale
This debut from multi¬instrumentalist trio Three Cane Whale is a warming cinematic landscape of music vignettes, recorded in a Bristol...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2012
Contreband Mentality
Les Frères are a 14-strong Paris-based Afro-beat collective who, for some bizarre reason, all take the same surname in the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
Java
Over the past decade or so, the Samba-sunda collective have done more than anyone to proselytise on behalf of music...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: March/2012
Looking for a Fight
The Sweetback Sisters are harkening back to the earliest decades of the American recording and radio casting industry when ‘sister’...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2012
Beginner’s Guide to Latin America
‘Ay, caramba!’, how do you do a beginn¬er’s guide to the music of more than 30 countries, with more than...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
The Klezmer Shul Live!
Veretski Pass are a trio of top American klezmer musicians – Cookie Segelstein on violin, Joshua Horowitz on accordion and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2012
Karton City Boom
Shalazakazoo are an electronic music duo from Belgrade (Serbia) and Karton City Boom is their debut album. A well-argued essay...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
Rodrigo & Gabriela & C.U.B.A — Area 52
As successful as previous albums from the rocked-up flamenco guitar wizards have been, someone clearly decided it was time to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012
A Window to Color
Mamak Khadem has been woefully neglected by UK world music promoters and producers. She started her performing career as lead...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2012
Silêncio
It’s not very clear what Claudia Aurora’s trying to do here. But whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to work....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012
