Reviews
Rendez-vous Barbès
The opening number, ‘Sidi Yahia-bnef Paris’, effortlessly mixes elements of Gnawa trance with a low-slung growling rock riff that The...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2010
Aguilas and Cobras
Stateside Latin funk often comes with psychedelic guitar chords, sexy vocals, big slabs of Yankee rock weirdness, and hot rhythms...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010
La Peña
Santaires, El Filón & Roberto Caldo
While the city of Buenos Aires boasts a couple of dedi¬cated FM tango music channels, its province – a huge...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010
Capture: 1995-2010
Love them or loathe them – and they do tend to polarise opinion – Afro Celt Sound System prompted a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2010
Diversions
Based in the Scottish Highlands, but with a line-up also drawn from California, Cape Breton and Ireland, Dàimh (pronounced ‘dive’,...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010
Manuia!
A re-release of a cult album from almost ten years ago, Manuia! plunges us into an aural world of singular...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010
Roots of OK Jazz: Congo Classics 1955-56
This is a reissue of a collection originally released in 1993 as part of the excellent ‘Zaire Classics’ series. Since...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2010
Minas Terra
A native of Brazil’s Minas Gerais, Philadelphia-based Anne Simoni follows in some seriously venerable footsteps, citing the likes of Milton...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2010
Songs of Rebirth: Tribute to Rumi
The world outside of Iran has been comparatively late in coming to recognise Ali Reza Ghorbani as part of the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2010
Sing For Me
From Ziguinchor, southern Senegal, the musical heartland of the country, Cherif Mbaw’s second international release brings little of his musical...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010
