Various Artists – Madagascar: Antanosy Country ( Ocora/ Select Audio Visual)
Madagascar is the 4th largest island in the world, 400km East of Africa, close to…
Author Bob Baker Fish
Bob Baker Fish
Bob is the features editor of Cyclic Defrost. He is also evil. You should not trust the opinions of evil people.
Babylon Circus – Dances of Resistance (Akirira/ Filter Music)
Babylon Circus are the ultimate party band. The energy is pushed up to fever pitch,…
Ensemble Gaguik Mouradian – Goussan: Armenian Troubadours (Accords Croises/ Select Audio Visual)
The Ensemble Gaguik Mouradian, is an ensemble that revisit the traditional poetic and musical heritage…
Numero Uno Label
Numero Uno is a vinyl junkie’ delight, a label that trawls through the archives and…
Antarctica -A Portrait in Wildlife and Natural Sound (Saydisc Records/ Select Audio Visual)
“Antarctica left a restless longing in my heart beckoning towards an incomprehensible perfection for ever…
Pretty Poison (DVD1)
Pretty Poison’ another one of those unexpected obscure gems that this DV craze seems to…
Persian Electronic Music – Yesterday and Today 1966 – 2006 (Sub Rosa/ Fuse)
The Iranian experimental music scene is relatively unknown in the West. To many it may…
Bigger Than Life (DV1)
“Childhood is a congenital disease,’ and “it’s the job of education to fix it,’ suggests…
Hi-God People interview by Bob Baker Fish (web only)
Cyclic Defrost’s Bob Baker Fish chats with Greg Wadley and Julian Williams of the Hi…
Columbiafrica – The Mystic Orchestra – Voodoo Love Inna Champeta-Land (WMN/ MRA)
With a large population of Africans, the streets of Columbia have created a new fusion,…
Rail Band Feat Mory Kante – Classic Titles (MRA)
They formed in 1969 at the behest of the station master in Bamako Mali in…
Badakhshan Ensemble – Song and Dance from the Pamir Mountains: Music of Central Asia Vol.5 (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/ Fuse)
The Badakhshan Ensemble take their name from the “roof of the world,’ from the Pamir…
The Root Of All Evil (Siren)
Richard Dawkins the evolutionary biologist and bestselling author of The God Delusion has a bee…
Raz Mesinai’s Badawi – Unit Of Resistance (Roir/ The Planet Company)
Fela Kuti notably said “music is the weapon,’ and Jerusalem born New York based Raz…
Taner Akyol – Birds of Passage (Enja/ Fuse)
Birds of Passage is a unique and unexpected fusion of classical chamber music and traditional…