Reviews
Volume 2: Echos Hypnotiques
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
From latter-day obscurity to the plush aisles of London’s Barbican, the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo story is a typically colourful one, with...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2010
Yatra: Nomadic Souls
I’d better come clean straightaway and say that I had trouble with this disc. Kailash Kher is a big star...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2010
A Mãe
Rodrigo Leão & Cinema Ensemble
Since his days with Madredeus, it has been difficult to fit Rodrigo Leão’s music into any particular category. Whilst remaining...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2010
De Momento
Ventilador has become a platform for mestizo music, a distinctive Spanish melange of flamenco strains, Latin American rhythms, jazz tropes,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Handmade Life
To illustrate the lyrical and incisive dissection of public ills and private graces that is Handmade Life, the album‘s artwork...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2010
World Ballads
This is the latest in Network’s usually excellent two-disc ‘longbox’ series. A decade or so ago, the similarly packaged Desert...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2010
King Papaya
Accordionist, keyboard player and multi– instrumentalist Koby Israelite has produced a CD of startling grotesquerie. A grim, obsessive figuration on...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2010
Zama Zama
A Zulu expression, roughly translating as let‘s try our luck’, might not seem the likeliest choice of title for a...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: March/2010
À Flor da Pele
It was inevitable that fado, like any other musical genre, would find a new audience (even in its home country)...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2010
Bonjour
It’s all a matter of interpretation. With Bonjour, Rachid Taha, the leather-clad, Algerian-born Joe Strummer acolyte, has made a record...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2010
