Think of One Camping Shaabi

Published May 20, 2008

Intrepid Belgian world music band Think of One revisit Moroccan roots music on their exuberant new release. Guitarist David Bovee, who leads...

Out to Lunch Excuse Me While I Do The Boogaloo

Published May 20, 2008

On the opening track of their debut Excuse Me While I Do The Boogaloo, Brooklyn soul jazz band Out To Lunch almost musically typecast their...

Earth, Roots And Water Innocent Youths

Published May 20, 2008

When Earth Roots And Water’s recently reissued debut Innocent Youths originally came out in 1977, the roots reggae band were studio tight an...

Dengue Fever Venus On Earth

Published Mar 24, 2008

Dengue Fever’s third release, Venus On Earth, has founding members Zac and Ethan Holtzman sticking to picture perfect late ’60s Cambodian ps...

Lisle Ellis Sucker Punch Requiem: A Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat

Published Mar 20, 2008

The amount of pop culture reverence for influential visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work is astounding. Biographies, movies, reprints o...

The Lions Jungle Struttin'

Published Feb 20, 2008

The weeping steel guitar of "Thin Man Skank” and dub-wise Aggrovators style set the musical tone on the Lions’ debut disc, Jungle Struttin’....

Empire Isis Sound The Trumpets

Published Feb 20, 2008

On her new disc, Sound The Trumpets, Empire Isis reaffirms her reggae roots while stepping up her beat science on an international sound tip...

Wax Poetic Istanbul

Published Jan 23, 2008

Istanbul by Wax Poetic begins as a billowy, languid soundscape awash in spectral Arabic whisperings, sampled radio noise and Turkish instrum...

Martin Tétreault and Kid Koala Phon-O-Victo

Published Jan 23, 2008

Phono-Victo documents Kid Koala and Martin Tetreault’s 2005 Victoriaville festival performance. It’s a rare collaboration that’s a dead on i...

Loop 2.4.3 Batterie

Published Jan 23, 2008

Full-on percussion albums sometimes collapse into freeze-dried, jam-band overkill. Brooklyn-based free-drum duo Loop 2.4.3 avoid this cliché...

Various The Fruit of The Original Sin: A Collection Of After Hours Preoccupations

Published Oct 29, 2007

By the time The Fruit of the Original Sin was released in 1981, the late ’70s explosion of underground music and spoken word in London and N...

Various Now We Are Ten

Published Oct 29, 2007

Since 1995, music archivist Jonny Trunk has been releasing alt-folk, lounge music oddities, B-grade and obscure film soundtracks, out-of-pri...

Duane Pitre / Pilotram Ensemble Organized Pitches Occurring in Time

Published Oct 29, 2007

On Duane Pitre’s new release, the experimental guitarist taps into classic minimalist music. His compositions "The Ensemble Chord in Eb with...

The National Parcs Timbervision

Published Aug 14, 2007

The National Parcs, formerly known as Freeworm, drop a concept album centred on environmentally friendly themes. This could be an unwieldy i...

Jeri Brown New Wonderland — The Best of Jeri Brown

Published Aug 14, 2007

This solid 13-track collection picks definitive cuts from every phase of the Montreal-based jazz singer’s nine-album career. "No Moon At All...

The Strato Ensemble Drawn Straws

Published Jul 20, 2007

On the Strato Ensemble’s recent Drawn Straws, the L.A.-based jazz ensemble open the disc by veering into ’70s jazz-fusion excess. And while...

Jaime Delgado Aparicio El Embajador y Yo

Published Jul 19, 2007

El Embajador y Yo, the reissued soundtrack to the 1966 Peruvian spy flick of the same name, flashes back to the days of muscular movie music...

Elizabeth Shepherd Besides

Published Jun 29, 2007

It’s a good thing soul jazz singer/pianist Elizabeth Shepherd starts off her new disc, Besides, covering Lionel Hampton’s sumptuous "Midnigh...

Joe Ariwa Dub Tech Dub

Published Jun 29, 2007

Dub Tech Dub by Joe Ariwa begins with an awesome double shot of bass bin shaking digital dub. On "Dub in Combat,” Ariwa weaves together a lu...

Balkan Beat Box Nu Med

Published May 23, 2007

Fake crowd noise on the first song of any disc is suspect but in the case of world music collective Balkan Beat Box, it makes total sense. T...