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CONJUNTO
JARDIN - Floreando
(Trova Recordings)
The music of Mexico is probably more associated in the minds
of listeners with boleros, mariachi or Tex-mex. Yet the tendrils
of the African diaspora are intertwined in this huge country
as well...MORE |
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SOUAD
MASSI - Raoui (Wrasse Records)
The latest "star" from Algeria, gifted with a superb
voice and what sounds like training in the classic Andalouse
North African style, she bears an aural resemblance to the wondrous
Sonia Laraissi who shimmered on the soundtrack of the Moufida
Tlatli film Les Silences Du Palais...MORE |
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IBRAHIM
FERRER - Buenos Hermanos (World Circuit)
The intense flurry of activity around the Buena Vista Social
Club, the Afro-Cuban All-Stars and the various offshoots may
have abated but the brilliant music keeps rolling on out...MORE |
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HOSSAM
RAMZY & RAFA EL TACHUELA - Flamenco Arabe (Arc
Music)
Egyptian percussionist/ tabla player Hossam Ramzy is often give
short shrift by world music aficionados in no small part due
to his prolific stream of belly-dance hits....MORE |
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NAJITE
OLOKUM PROPHECY - Africa Before Invasion (Plug Research)
Over the last few years Nigerian afro-beat has seen a renaissance
with lots of reissues of classic material and new bands or artists
such as Antibalas or Femi Kuti...MORE |
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OUT
OF THIS WORLD (Womad)
Subtitled 10 years of Womad in Australia this double CD set
presents selections from 25 artists who have appeared at the
Womadelaide Festival which has been held in Adelaide, South
Australia since 1992...MORE |
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CARA
DILLON -Cara Dillon (Rough Trade)
This young Irish singer was quite the darling of this year's
Womadelaide festival. Winner of the All Ireland Singing Trophy
at the tender age of 14 she was later to become the acclaimed
voice of such folk bands as Oige and Equation...MORE |
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EAST
ASIA (Travelogue)
In many of the highly industrialised places like Japan or Taiwan
there has been a wholesale appropriation of western models rather
than creative assimilation with the tradition, a phenomenon
which might seem to have spelt the death of meaningful indigenous
music...MORE |
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DRY
AND HEAVY- New Creation (Valve Records)
Dry and Heavy are one of Japan's leading reggae bands. That
said this really isn't a reggae record as such…although
it inevitably skanks like the billy-oh...MORE |
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DUB
SELECTOR 2 - Various (Quango)
Here's an interesting concept. As Jamaican dub is the root of
today's electronica why not turn the tables and make an electronica
dub album? So that's what they did on Dub Selector 2...click
on the CD for a full review |
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Orchestra
Baobab -Specialist in All Styles (World Circuit)
If it weren’t for this seminal Senegalese orchestra it
is highly doubtful that the world at large would have heard
such luminaries as the Afro-Cuban All Stars, Grupo Sierra Maestra,
Cheikh Lo or the various Buena Vista offshoots, among others...
click on the CD for a full review |
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FULA FLUTE –
Bailo Bah (Blue Monster Records)
With the enormous surge in interest in the non-percussion
instruments and music of West Africa in recent years, it’s
quite amazing that this is the first recording to feature
the fula (or peul) flute of the Fulani peoples... click on
the CD for a full review
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Double
T - Ad Infinitum
Double T are a duo consisting of Yuri Terletski on acoustic
guitar and Anatoli Torjinski on cello. I placed their excellent
debut ‘Beyond The Circle’ at the top of the list of
Australian world music in the critics’ pick of 2001...
click on the CD for a full review
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ASIAN
GROOVE - Various (Putumayo)
Some of the most fascinating contemporary dance music around
today is the fusion of modern technology and western music with
the plethora of musical styles to be found throughout Asia...MORE |
