DISTRICT SIX (Losen/Birdland) 7/10 Among all the indigenous idioms with which jazz has intermingled the music of South Africa has been an especially natural fit. Such rainbow nation musicians as Abdullah Ibrahim, Dudu Pukwana and Louis Moholo have been responsible for some of the most distinctive and ebullient jazz ever…
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NOT MY LOVER (Wave) 7/10 This is album is in part Chris Cody’s reflections on Paris, the city in which he lived for many years before returning to Sydney. Most overtly he reworks Erik Satie’s Gnossienne No. 3, Serge Gainsbourg’s gorgeous La Javanaise and Cole Porter’s I Love Paris. But…
WORLD MUSIC (http://josephtawadros.com) 9/10 Does knowing that one person plays 52 instruments on an album skew the way one hears the music? It shouldn’t, but it can. Oud maestro Joseph Tawadros here plays a plethora of strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboards and percussion, while his brother James incorporates a further 11…