Reviews

With 'Pura Vida Conspiracy' Gogol Bordello front man Eugene Hütz comes full circle; for the first time in a long time he returned to his mother country Ukraine, a trip to Kiev that brought him to terms with his position as the ultimate outsider.

Ten years ago Lutan Fyah and Jah Mason were still rising stars in the Jamaican music scene, but somewhere along the lines we lost track of both of them.

The Nice Guys are a Ghent (Belgium) based band founded over ten years ago when members of punk formation The Accused decided to have a stab at playing some genuine ska.

'Freedom Of The Soul' is already Mo'Kalamity & The Wizards' third album.

With 'Reggae Anthology: Pass The Knowledge', vocal trio Mighty Diamonds finally receives the career overview it deserves.

End of August news reached us of the untimely death of Ethiopian reggae singer Eyob Mekonnen who had succumbed to the aftereffects of a stroke in a Kenyan hospital on August 18th.

With 'Journey' Ken Boothe is putting his fifty years in the music business in the spotlight.

This new album by Winston McAnuff and French accordionist Fixi was already announced a few months ago with the release of a self-titled four track EP.

Rebetiko might sound a tad melancholic to Western European ears (the genre wasn't nicknamed "the Aegean blues" for no reason), in Turkey and Greece it still provides musical liberation for the lower classes and in the light of the events in both Greece and Turkey (the album is dedicated to all "mortissas" who stood their ground during the protests on Taksim Square) it's perhaps only fitting Çiğdem Aslan, a young singer of Kurdish-Alevi origins, is giving the genre a new wind.

Canadian Earlyworm quickly made a name for himself in the dub scene and with 'The Dub Device' delivers his best release to date: solid bass, samples and effects in the right places… absolutely everything about this album makes sense.