Sitar Joe – Venus Tribe (Sitar Joe, 2010) Seductive trance-like electronic dance music beats, Indian and Middle Eastern melodies and the lead sounds of the…
Sitar that Grooves
Category: Album reviews
Uncovered Somali Tapes from Hargeisa
Various Artists – Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa (Ostinato Records, 2017) Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes…
Uho Vocal Wizardry
Tuuletar – Uho (Bafe’s Factory, 2017) Finnish vocal music wizards Tuuletar have anew single titled Uho. The four talented women once more perform all vocal…
Remarkable Folk-Rock Renaissance
Offa Rex – The Queen of Hearts (Nonesuch Records, 2017) Offa Rex is a fascinating collaboration between English vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney and…
Bravado Masala
James Asher and Mahesh Vinayakram – Bravado Masala (Times Music, 2008) This album sounds promising and exciting on the cover, which certainly has an element…
Sublime Toy Raha Toy
Toko Telo – Toy Raha Toy (Anio Records, 2017) Toko Telo is a world music supergroup that brings together three of the finest and best-known…
A New Vision of Fado
Yolanda Soares – Royal Fado (Compaes Records, 2016) Eclectic classically-trained Portuguese vocalist Yolanda Soares draws her inspiration from fado, although she doesn’t describe herself as…
Copla with a Jazz Twist
Natalia Mellado – Caminos De Vuelta (Cabalgache, 2014) Natalia Mellado is a talented singer from southwestern Spain that specializes in copla, a type of Spanish…
Ask Your Heart: Mehmet Polat Trio
Ask Your Heart is the second album by the Mehmet Polat Trio (released in 2017 on homerecords.be). Its music transports the listener from a world…
Fufu Tryout
Dominic Egli’s Plurism with Feya Faku – More Fufu (Unit Records, 2016) More Fufu is an album Swiss jazz drummer Dominic Egli. His band Plurism…