Najma Akhtar Gary Lucas – Rishte (World Village/ Select Audio Visual)
Rishte is this utterly beguiling creation that just flows beautifully, like it was always meant…
Bob is the features editor of Cyclic Defrost. He is also evil. You should not trust the opinions of evil people.
Rishte is this utterly beguiling creation that just flows beautifully, like it was always meant…
To the Units the guitar was a symbol of safe acceptable rebellion. Mass marketed in…
With a Tunisian singer Nawel Ben Kraiem who sings in English, French and Arabic, above…
Just when you thought that all trios of improvising musicians were just pretentious excuses to…
Italian Nicola Ratti’s music on Ode is subtle, with only vague structural outlines, a push…
There’s an underlying feel of exploitation, of cultural colonialism when western artists utilise traditional, often…
This is an interview with French Algerian performer Rachid Taha that I did for Inpress…
Radiokijada, an Austrian Peruvian collaboration between the traditional and the electronic introduces us to the…
Austrian based Macedonian producer DJ Ahilea makes an infectious kind of electronic Balkan party music,…
It’s amazing what a difference Borat makes. Despite soundtracks for great films like Emir Kusturica’s…
t may be a surprise to many that not only did Afrobeat not end with…
When Ween went country with 12 Golden Country Greats the concept was bizarre brilliant and…
Repo is Black Dice’s foray into melody and funk. Sure it’s a scattered confusing quite…
Let’s just put it straight out there. Icelandic Balkan music. And not surprisingly it’s like…
So since the mid eighties when he walked away from the music industry, the King…