Music
Rishte
An album with a range of references stretching from a lazy Delta blues to the yearnings of Urdu devotionals. By Najma Akhtar and Gary Lucas.
Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast
Guitars blast, synthesizers go mad and a group of gospel harmonizers strain for the heavens as sitar strings twang. By Cornershop
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CDs that didn't quite make a full review, but are still worthy of a mention.
The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival
Starting where founding father of afrobeat Fela Kuti left off, this album features energetic tracks of sweaty inventiveness.
Siwan
For all its ancient antecedents, Siwan is a very modern album and a joyous meditation for that.
Within My Walls
An odd title, given the political geography of Israel/Palestine, this album projects a vision of multicultural music that seems to have little space for Palestinian musicians.
House of Hunger
An album that is very much the sound of a modern-day freedom fighter.
Seya
Accompanied by a wide range of sound for this latest outing – jazzy horns, strings and the kamele ngoni (harp) played by trusty sidekick Benego Diakite – Seya is an album that simply flows.
Gurrumul
Listeners familiar with the harder sounds of Yothu Yindi are in for a surprise. The 12 songs on Gurrumul display an altogether softer side of their author.
Easy Come, Easy Go
Subtitled '18 Songs for Music Lovers', Easy Come, Easy Go is a double album containing a wide choice of songs: from Brian Eno's 'How Many Worlds' to Dolly Parton's 'Down from Dover'
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Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for?
What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for
that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a
10-point economic detox programme.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on
biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was
born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
abortion in Colombia.
The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.
The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin
Alavi explains.
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