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…
Bending the Blues
Category: Album reviews
Colombian Cumbia Seriously Road Tested
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…
Brit Brazilian Beats
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…
Introducing Jordan’s Dozan
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…
Memorable and More
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…
Tasty African Danish
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…
I Can See the Gates of Heaven
Márta Sebestyén I Can See the Gates of Heaven…[Nyitva látám mennyeknek kapuját] Hungarian Religious and Secular Songs (Viva La Musica, 2008) Creating a journey of…
Classic Gil
Gilberto Gil Banda Larga Cordel (WEA, 2008) Jill Turner reflects on the dizzy heights that Gilberto Gil has scaled as a musician and a politician,…
The Ry Cooder Anthology
Ry Cooder The UFO Has Landed – The Ry Cooder Anthology (Rhino Entertainment, 2008) ‘Getting the goods’ and ‘I’ll take one with everything’ takes on…
Supreme Seprewa
Seprewa Kasa Seprewa Kasa (Riverboat Records/World Music Network TUGCD 1051, 2008) I must admit I’d never heard of a seprewa until I listened to this…