Category: Album reviews

Groupa Frost (Footprint Records, 2008) Groupa is a legendary group in Swedish folk music, which describes its music as Nordic folk fusion. The veteran group…

Jill Turner recovers after being sucked into a testosterone fuelled vortex of edgy basslines, creative programming, and lyrical spitting, mentally exhausting and in parts exciting,…

Omara Portuondo Gracias (World Village, 2008) All it takes is a single vocal line by Ms. Omara Portuondo and it’s clear that you are helpless.…

Various Artists Entre Dunes Et Savanes Desert Blues 3 (Network, 2008) I have often wondered whether there is a correlation between music and landscape, physical…

Jill Turner gets ideas for the dancefloor, as DJ Russ Jones, the Hackney globetrotter, changes destination and heads out towards Colombia. As one half of…

Rhythms of the City Rhythms of the City (F-IRE CD26, 2008) The city of this disc’s title is London and the collective known as Rhythms…

Dozan Introducing Dozan (Introducing/World Music Network, 2008) Folk music is often not given its due in favor of the more flashy fusions out there on…

David Chevan with Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi and The Afro-Semitic Experience Yizkor: Music of Memory (Reckless DC Music RMCD 1053, 2008) Combining musical roots of the…

Deodato Siquir Balanco (2AM Productions DS7501, 2008) Born in Mozambique and presently based in Denmark, drummer/vocalist/bassist/guitarist/pianist Deodato Siquir has made a solid and enjoyable African…