The album is full of Nu-Brazilian delights.

" I’ve had so many WTF moments from the label over the years it would be remiss not to bring the imprint to your attention."

"As the title suggests the track looks to the East, stopping off in India on the way and audaciously even drops in a flamenco flourish and a bit of Americana twang"

"constructing a barrage of polyrhythmic percussion and layering the highly flammable rhythms with deviant dark room rave primed electronica and low frequency pressure,"

" the album fittingly weaves its way along dusty, rosemary strewn, electroacoustic Andalusian paths, planting the seed of a new genre that we can only hope germinates in the region’s sun baked landscape. "

"this album, recorded between the Tunefork studio in Beirut and Tohme's home in the Lebanese mountains, is a perfect melting pot of rural, urban, traditional and innovative."

"Far-out funkiness and some cosmic bump is the order of the day with "scampi strut" with Varian setting the keyboard controls for the heart of the sun"

"It's a warm slice of cosmic Afrobeat which should be all over global and open minded dance floors this summer and well beyond."

"artfully fusing the sounds of his harmonica, both Indian and Western slide guitars and Iranian folk music."

" five easy rhythms which will blow a pleasant breeze onto any summer (in)activities, whilst Mizutani noodles along without a care in the world on guitar whilst singing songs of who knows what"

Middle Eastern cinematic strings that will resonate through your brain for days, oh yeah, and why not throw in some psyche synths and effected horns for added mystique

there is a genuine feeling of peace and contentment running through the album, something that she manages to channel to anyone in earshot with THAT voice

Packing his vintage reel to reel alongside his trusty 12 string guitar and a change of socks, Crosby headed south from his Boston home to the Blue Front Cafe, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi

It's a compelling slice of horizon gazing Egyptian music that is rooted in the region's rich musical heritage whilst causing multiple ripples in the North East African music continuum

Kabaco gives a hearty laugh at the thought of the Swedes trying to get down to this funktified groove and polyrhythmic percussion

This really is a swirling fusion of man, machine, worlds and wires

But what really marks the LP out is her willingness to take those traditions and influences and give them a twist or ten

Khyoot seemingly takes its inspiration from the genteel, somewhat stoned folk sounds of 1960’s England.

Yemeni wedding punk, thumping space rock, astral folk, urban Arabian attitude and hyper-speed Middle Eastern futurism

from MPB to bossa through to samba soul

she curiously explores and toys with the worlds of orchestral assisted MPBs, dream samba, acoustic roots and old and nu-bossa

Sadly this review is also an obituary as Modou "Mamadou" Sarr

It’s a mind blowing collection of animistic roots and culture colliding fusion - raw, ritualistic and revelatory.

content to help elevate the main man’s evocative North Africa got soul vocals with some great dubbed out, jazz laced atmospheric work