Shooglenifty The Arms Dealer’s Daughter (Compass Records 74362 2, 2003) Shooglenifty is an instrumental band that is creating new ways of expression for Scottish music.…
Extraordinary Scottish Music
Category: Album reviews
Journey through the outback
Peter Gabriel The Long Walk Home – The Rabbit-Proof Fence (Real World/Narada, 2002) Die hard Peter Gabriel fans and collectors of international movie soundtracks are…
Sahrauis, Music of Western Sahara
Sahrauis (Saharawis) Music of Western Sahara(3 CDs and a book) Nubenegra and Intuition Music & Media (1998) In 1998, four European producers set out on…
Latin Love Songs
Yolanda Aranda & Enrique Coria Intimo – Latin American Canciones for Voice & Guitar (Acoustic Disc) When many music lovers seek romantic music they often…
New Highs in U.S./Jamaican Relations
The Slackers – Close My Eyes (Hellcat Records 80455-2, 2003) Zema – Black Sheep (Melchizedek Music MEL2040, 2003) It’s odd what you find in the…
Doin’ the Hip-Hop Horah
Solomon and Socalled Hiphopkhasene (Piranha CDPIR1789, 2003) If it had been made strictly to milk laughs, this disc could have been a disaster rather than…
Songs of Freedom
Kabul Workshop – Trigana (Tinder Records, 2002) Imperialism in all its guises and current world politicking have created a new diaspora with many of the…
More Fun in the Desert
Justin Adams – Desert Road (World Village, 2002) During the Victorian era many French and English adventure seekers headed to Imperialist Africa to escape Victorian…
Face the Music
John Wubbenhorst and Facing East – Facing Beloved (Facing East Productions 03050541, 2003) A lot of fusion music has been based on and around the…
Digital Bled
Digital Bled – Caravana (Tinder Records) Digital Bled, led by Portugal’s DJ Joao Pedro Velosos mixes dub, funk, and hip hop tempos with musical styles…