MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Global Routes with Tony Burke: April 14, 2023
Music with the marvellous Eritrean krar, and a prolific populariser of Andean Cumbia music in Ecuador
The Krar is a five-or-six stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Ethiopia and Eritrea
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
DESPITE its opulence Geneva is a multicultural city with many African venues and eateries where musicians, artists and activists gather and provide each other with help and assistance.
Three musicians from north and east Africa, Moroccan guembri player Anouar Baouna, Eritrean krar player Samuel Ades and Algerian darbouka player Ali Bouchaki, all made the arduous journey from their homes to get to Switzerland.
Along with European musicians the Cyril Cyril Duo, Simone Auber, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent Bertholet, they formed Yalla Miku whose self-titled debut set is now out on the Geneva-based Bongo Joe label.
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