Suzzana Owiyo Mama Africa (ARC Music EUCD 1875, 2004) My first taste of Suzzana Owiyo came via the song “Kisumu 100” on World Music Network’s…
Oh, Suzzana
Category: Album reviews
Spain’s latest flava
Amparanoia – Rebeldia con Alegria, best of (independent, 2004) Another sure-fire star of the world music scene finally gets a proper airing outside of her…
Favourites. 60 years on, an anthology of the great Brazilian Poet Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque – Favourites. 60 years on (Wrasse Records Wrass112) People often talk of Caetano as the Dylan of Brazil. But if this is true…
Mad Sheer Takes Hendrix to Samarkand
Mad Sheer Khan Samarkand Hotel, Live at Le Triton 2002 (Le Triton TRI 03507, 2003) It is hard to classify this recording. It is world…
Radical roots from Galicia
Xose Manuel Budiño – Zume de Terra (Boa, 2004) Xosé Manuel Budiño is yet another young modernizing traditionalist emerging from the corners of Europe’s culturally…
Nascente’s The Very Best of Brazil
Various Artists – The Very Best of Brazil – 2 CDs (Nascente NSCDD 2011) The problem with definitive collections is what they do not include.…
Sweet, sweet perfume
Culture Musical Club – Waridi, Scents of Zanzibar/Waridi: Parfums de Zanzibar (US: EMI import/Europe: Jahazi Media, 2004) The soul of Stone Town is captured in…
Greek to Me
Various Artists Putumayo Presents Greece, a Musical Odyssey (PUTU 225-2 CD, 2004) Probably timed to coincide with the current Olympic games, this disc isn’t likely…
Sufi Songs by Shafqat Ali Khan
Shafqat Ali Khan Sufi Songs (ARC Music EUCD1849, 2003) Shafqat Ali Khan has an impressive voice. He is an accomplished singer who is just as…
Count ’em
Various Artists Many Blessings (Silver Wave Records SD 940, 2004) Native American fusion music can be a dicey thing. Some of it winds up so…