Reviews
Psychedelic Pernambuco
Like a balding prog-rock lover at a record fair, European labels and DJs continue to trawl Brazil's 1970s back catalogue...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: July/2011
Solla Solla Volume 1
Although not well-known in the West, Ilaiyaraaja was reigning king of South India's popular music long before AR Rahman became...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2011
Rags & Robes
Twenty four-year-old Scottish folk singer Ewan McLennan's star is very much on the rise. In February, he won the Horizon...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2011
Cannibal Courtship
Dengue Fever's latest album is a step up from their last studio effort, Venus on Earth, in 2008. The band...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2011
Do Amor e dos Dias
Camané's latest album, Of Love and Days, is unlikely to be the easiest of listening for newcomers to fado but...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: July/2011
Debademba
Abdoulaye Traoré & Mohamed Diaby
The collaborative spirit is alive and well on Debademba, an album ostensibly created by two 20-something Paris-based West Africans: guitarist...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2011
Homing In
This is the second album by the poet Ian McMillan and his orchestra – five musicians led by accordion player...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2011
Lost Causes
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird have come on a long way from their 2005 debut album The Broken Tongue...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
Last Band Standing
Who says you have to actually live in Eastern Europe to play Eastern European sounds? Not Forty Thieves Orkestar, a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2011
