Reviews
Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film
Divorced from the documentary that it soundtracks [reviewed on p103], Sounds And Silence effectively becomes a plain and simple ECM...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
La Negra: The Definitive Collection
With neither ‘Gracias a la Vida’ nor ‘Maria Maria’ on it, this double album is not quite the definitive collection...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
2011: A Space Odyssey
The liner notes of this debut album say that the release is a tribute to the ‘musicians of Cambodia's Golden...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Grande Liquidação
The Mr Bongo label deserves some kudos for re-releasing this, the hard-to-find 1968 debut album from everyone's favourite world music...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Dust
Dust, the Faeries’ sixth studio release, is a mellower affair than we'd traditionally expect from the Skye-based boys. Well-known and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Sistema Subversiva
Don't expect to hear any mint-breathed sighing, loose-hipped swaying and general ‘la-la-la-ing’ from Da Cruz. Bossa nova and its anodyne...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Fasiya
Breaking the mould of West Africa's male– dominated kora tradition, Sona Jobarteh comes from a Mande griot family representing a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia
Música Llanera is the music of the vast open expanses of the Colombian plains around the Orinoco River, up in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Accordion Samurai
Perhaps in response to endless gags about their instrument being anti-social — ‘a gentleman is a man who can play...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Di Corsica Riposu; Requiem pour Deux Regards
Corsica In Repose; A Requiem of Two Visions is the album's title; looking both ways is the essence of what...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
