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Review of DJ Lubi Jovanovic presents Salsa Funk Experience

DJ Lubi Jovanovic presents Salsa Funk Experience

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★

Here’s yet another addition to Nascente’s Funk Experience series – Kid Loco’s French Funk Experience has been released simultaneously –...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Yobadi

Yobadi

Karim Ziad & Hamid El Kasri

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★

How can you justify subjecting the raw power of traditional Moroccan Gnawa music to a pernickety, pimple-picking, over-intellectualised version of...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of One for the Road

One for the Road

Session A9

RAJ Records

Rating: ★★★

Session A9 are made up of road veterans of Capercaillie, Peatbog Faeries, Boys of the Lough and Fiddlers’ Bid. You...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Devils and Wonders in Bali

Devils and Wonders in Bali

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★★

At several points, this disc of Balinese gamelan recordings made in 1974 had me punching the air in excitement. There’s...

Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Dil

Dil

Shujaat Husain Khan

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

The family style of the late sitar legend Vilayat Khan is renowned for its gayaki, a vocalised style of playing...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Breathbox

Breathbox

Antti Paalanen

Siba Records

Rating: ★★★★

I was lucky enough to be at a concert given by the accordionist Antti Paalanen at the Sibelius Academy in...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Open on Sundays

Open on Sundays

Duck Soup

Hebe Music

Rating: ★★★

You'll get it cheaper at Duck Soup’s Gramophone and Cycle Stores, 18 Station Road, West Croydon.’ So proclaims the sign...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Awalin

Awalin

Steve Shehan & Nabil Othmani

Naive

Rating: ★★

Steve Shehan is a man who has been there and done that, earning his crust playing percussion with Paul Simon,...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of A Matter of Life

A Matter of Life

Penguin Café

Editions Penguin Café

Rating: ★★★★

The Penguin Café ensemble, led by Arthur Jeffes, son of Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Simon Jeffes, has toured widely over the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Lanbousir

Lanbousir

Christine Salem

Cobalt

Rating: ★★★★

Lanbousir (L’Emb-ouchure) is Christine Salem’s fourth album of studio-recorded compositions in the traditional maloya style, for voice and percussion ensemble....

Reviewed by Paddy Bush in issue: Apr/May/2011

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