WAY OUT WEST (Jazzhead) 8/10 Peter Knight has shaken up the personnel and instrumentation – and therefore the music – of his Way Out West project, while managing to retain its essential dialogue between East and West. Where happy grooves once predominated, here the opening Nine Years Later begins as…
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LET LOVE RULE (Liberation Music) 8/10 Countless songwriters use adversity as a catalyst for composing, even subconsciously wallowing in it because they can’t write without it. Archie Roach is one of the rare birds in this business to treat adversity as a challenge to be transcended. In Roach’s scheme it…
RROMANTICS (lololovina.wordpress.com) Three-point-five stars Lolo Lovina makes music that seems to come from an imaginary land nestled in the Balkans, yet somehow sunnier. Basically the band lets its Australianness colour its take on Romani (sometimes “Rromani”) music by infusing it with a host of parallel influences. Were it not done…