The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival

The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival

Starting where founding father of afrobeat Fela Kuti left off, this album features energetic tracks of sweaty inventiveness.

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NI 425 - Where have all the Bees gone? - September, 2009
Amina Alaoui – a tremendous voice on the broodingly beautiful Siwan.

Siwan

For all its ancient antecedents, Siwan is a very modern album and a joyous meditation for that.

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NI 425 - Where have all the Bees gone? - September, 2009
Within My Walls

Within My Walls

An odd title, given the political geography of Israel/Palestine, this album projects a vision of multicultural music that seems to have little space for Palestinian musicians.

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NI 424 - Surviving change in the Arctic - July, 2009
House of Hunger

House of Hunger

An album that is very much the sound of a modern-day freedom fighter.

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NI 424 - Surviving change in the Arctic - July, 2009
Seya

Seya

Accompanied by a wide range of sound for this latest outing – jazzy horns, strings and the kamele ngoni (harp) played by trusty sidekick Benego Diakite – Seya is an album that simply flows.

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NI 423 - China in charge - June, 2009
Gurrumul

Gurrumul

Listeners familiar with the harder sounds of Yothu Yindi are in for a surprise. The 12 songs on Gurrumul display an altogether softer side of their author.

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NI 423 - China in charge - June, 2009
Easy Come, Easy Go

Easy Come, Easy Go

Subtitled '18 Songs for Music Lovers', Easy Come, Easy Go is a double album containing a wide choice of songs: from Brian Eno's 'How Many Worlds' to Dolly Parton's 'Down from Dover'

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NI 422 - Multiculturalism - May, 2009
Better Times Will Come

Better Times Will Come

An album loaded with the instrumentation - fiddle, steel guitar, banjo and mandolin - of American roots music.

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NI 422 - Multiculturalism - May, 2009
Très Très Fort

Très Très Fort

Congo’s amazing disabled rhythm-maestros Staff Benda Bilili

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NI 421 - Put people first - April, 2009
Africa to Appalachia

Africa to Appalachia

Sissoko’s warm-toned vocals and fluid kora work, counterpointed by Stone’s banjo-picking make for a wonderfully expansive sound on Africa to Appalachia

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NI 421 - Put people first - April, 2009
Uniting hiphop-minded Arabs and Jews.

Make Room

Funked-up Hebrew rap, full of asides about booze, girls and – this is one you wouldn’t find with Enimem – gefilter fish.

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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009
Max Pashm, purveyor of KlezmerBalkanGreekGypsyPunk with electro beats.

Never Mind the Balkans

Pashm’s band – a judicious mixture of Greek, Jewish and Balkan musicians – belt along with brass, baglamas, woodwind and lyres at their disposal.

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NI 420 - Mothers who die - March, 2009
Mother-Earth! Father-Sky!

Mother-Earth! Father-Sky!

Mother-Earth! Father-Sky! by Huun-Huur-Tu featuring Sainkho

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NI 419 - Climate justice - January, 2009
Deserted Villages

Deserted Villages

Made in tandem with the Albanian accordionist / composer Dasho Kurti, the 11 songs on Deserted Villages offer a broad palate, and not all of it mournful.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
Gomidas Songs

Gomidas Songs

Certainly some of these songs may have once been heard over fields and cradles rather than concert halls, but their translation from private to public music is a beautiful one.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
In the House of Mirrors

In the House of Mirrors

New instrumental album by Hector Zazou and Swara

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008
Big Blue Ball

Big Blue Ball

Peter Gabriel threw open the doors of his Real World studios in rural England and invited an enormous bunch of musicians – Sinead O’Connor, Marta Sebestyen, Papa Wemba, Guo Yue are just a few of them – to come and jam.

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NI 416 - Wanted! For dodging tax justice - October, 2008
Hear, O Israel: A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz

Hear, O Israel: A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz

17-year-old rabbi’s son – and fledgling composer – Joseph Klein lured one of the greatest names in jazz (Herbie Hancock) to join in performing a jazz prayer ceremony.

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NI 416 - Wanted! For dodging tax justice - October, 2008

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Where have all the Bees gone? September, 2009
Where have all the Bees gone? September, 2009
Surviving change in the Arctic July, 2009
Surviving change in the Arctic July, 2009
China in charge June, 2009
China in charge June, 2009
Multiculturalism May, 2009
Multiculturalism May, 2009
Put people first April, 2009
Put people first April, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Mothers who die March, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
Wanted! For dodging tax justice October, 2008
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