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ALBUM REVIEW: PHILIP TABANE – THE INDIGENOUS AFRO-JAZZ SOUNDS OF PHILIP...
Is the association of jazz with heroin a fairly universal thing or have I inherited this unrealistic stereotype based on mid-20th-century cinema’s lazy caricaturing of counter-culture and “hippy...
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ALBUM REVIEW: BALLAKE SISSOKO – A TOUMA
In a sense, I have always had a prejudice against “world music” as being the sort of quirky but forgettable background to lunch in a vegetarian cafe – but on the other hand I really take offence at the...
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ALBUM REVIEW: SEPULTURA – SEPULNATION
Sepulnation is a collection of the five studio albums released by Sepultura after they replaced original vocalist Max Cavalera with Derrick Green. Sepulnation spans 1998’s Against and Nation, Roorback,...
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ALBUM REVIEW: HEINALI – KYIV ETERNAL
With a title like ‘Kyiv Eternal’, there is no escaping the associations with what, for many in the West, is a distressing reminder of the precariousness of our comfortable modern life but which, for...
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ALBUM REVIEW: IZANGO MA – NGO MA
The bottom and top of this review is that this is a fantastic record but it’s not going to be for everyone. If music, to you, should be a three-and-a-half minute pleasure cruise, look away now; if you...
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THE MIGHTY BARD – BEYOND THE GATE
I never used to be pleased to see an album with only seven songs; it just didn’t seem like good value –but nowadays seven songs clocking in at over an hour seems like a promise of some good development...
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ALBUM REVIEW – DUN RINGILL: 150-WHERE THE OLD GODS PLAY ACT 1
Sometimes, you listen to a band and imagine that one Tuesday, sitting at the kitchen table two retired parents watch their middle-aged child emerge from his basement bedroom, long hair flowing, leather...
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ALBUM REVIEW – YUSSEF DAYES: BLACK CLASSICAL MUSIC
An anonymous source told this reporter, of Yussef Dayes: “He’s heavy on grooves. I first heard him with United Vibrations. After that, he played with Kamaal Williams in the project Yussef Kamaal, which...
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ALBUM REVIEW – RANDOM HAND: RANDOM HAND
I love a super-over-produced, American punk record – this is simply what ska-punk should sound like, in my book (apologies to King Prawn and Judge Dredd). Ten tracks, just over half an hour, short but...
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ALBUM REVIEW – SATAN’S FALL: DESTINATION DESTRUCTION
So, “metal” is a bit of a catch-all term – which obviously is why we have “black metal”, “hair metal”, “cheese metal” etc. (although there’s just no reason why we have “nu-metal”!). In any case, it can...
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