Reviews
Wanabni
Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
Palestinian singer and oud player Kamilya Jubran first teamed up with German trumpeter and electronics artist Werner Hasler for 2003’s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011
Subvillage Sound
There is a small but lively electro-folk scene in Poland, which was kick-started by the Warsaw Village Band. Village Kollektiv,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
Thai? Dai! The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground
The typical Thai luk thung (often described as ‘country music’) shows of the 1970s were glitzy affairs with huge orchestras...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Apr/May/2011
Vida, Pasión y Tango
When José Libertella died in December 2004, it seemed inevitable that Argentina’s best-known post-Piazzolla orchestra would have to accept its...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2011
Katla
Contrary to what the band’s name – and the opening track ‘Papa Chajes’ – suggest, klezmer is not really what...
Reviewed by Ton Maas in issue: Apr/May/2011
Beyond the Trance
Iness Mezel's third album kicks off with the kind of Justin Adams guitar riff you'd find him using as Robert...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2011
Human
You can never take away from Clegg his brave role as a white Jewish musician in apartheid South Africa, fronting...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
Live at Perthshire Amber
Julie Fowlis is now a fine ambassador for the music, song and culture of her Outer Hebridean homeland and this...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
A Tiempo
Hailing from Triana, Seville's one time Gypsy quartei and home of classic flamenco, Rosario Guerrero Hernández, aka ‘La Tremendita’, has...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2011
