Afro Celt Sound System Volume 3: Further In Time (Real World/Narada Records) The international super group Afro Celt Sound System offer us a feast of…
Dance-house Beats and Celtic Mysticism Meets Africa
Category: Album reviews
Sheila Chandra’s Indipop Retrospective
Sheila Chandra The Indipop Retrospective (Narada) At age sixteen, East Indian-Irish actress and pop singer, Sheila Chandra embarked on what would turn out to be…
Pop Sensibility Married to Tropicalia Sex Appeal
Cibelle Cibelle (Six Degrees Records) Sao Paulista Cibelle’s debut release, Cibelle (pronounced see-BELL-ee) although worlds apart, some how reflects a Kate Bush pop sensibility married…
Cold Storage Reggae
Instigators – Living Gift (I-Sight Records ISR-101, 2005) Urban Tribe – Who is the Enemy? (Adam Atterby Musikproduktion, 2006) I continually marvel at the far-reaching…
Salsas and Salaams
The Rough Guide to Latin Arabia (World Music Network RGNET 1175CD, 2006) The connections between Latin and Arabic music should come as no surprise. The…
Rachid Taha’s Unexpected Lyrical Return to the Music of his Childhood
Rachid Taha Diwan 2 (Wrasse Records Wrass181, 2006) After almost non-stop rocking and rolling around the globe for the past two years, a serious-looking Rachid…
The Best of the Cuban Music Awards 2006
Various Artists Havana Masters Present… The Best of the Cuban Music Awards 2006 (Havana Masters FLOCD5, 2006) In the last few years you could almost…
Think Inside the Globe
Th!nk Global: West Africa Unwired (World Music Network RGNET 1169CD, 2006) Th!nk Global: Bellydance (World Music Network RGNET 1161CD, 2006) These releases remind me a…
Songs from the Shetland Isles by Shoormal
Review by Hugh McKay. Shoormal Turning Tide (Greentrax Records, 2006 What can I say about this album? As it turns out there’s so much to…
Tony Allen Back on the Beat
Tony Allen Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon’s Records HJRCD20, 2006) Tony Allen, Africa’s finest drumset player and right hand man to Fela Kuti in the…