Articles by David Dacks

Improv & Avant-Garde 2011: Unstandards - Reinventing Jazz

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

One of my favourite quotes in Exclaim! this year comes courtesy of Badbadnotgood (pictured): "A young person doesn't give a fuck how you pl...

Soul and World 2011: Everyone's In tUnE

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

For the last several years, the big winners (for critics looking at soul, funk and world albums), have found a sweet spot that works well i...

Elage Diouf Wins Mundial Montreal's Galaxie Rising Star Award

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2011

Capping off M for Montreal's first Mundial Montreal music conference was the presentation of the Galaxie Rising Star award, which was taken...

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Another City Now

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2011

Another City Now proceeds the way an EP should; it's a quick jaunt through six slices of superior synth-funk with a dub-y little coda. This...

The Lijadu Sisters

Afro Beat Soul Sisters

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2011

It's a bit of an eyebrow raiser that it's taken this long for a compilation of Nigeria's Lijadu Sisters to emerge for North American audien...

Makossa & Megablast

Soy Como Soy

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2011

Makossa and Megablast made waves a few years ago with their first release on Kruder & Dorfmeister's G-Stone records. You can hear the taste...

Mundial Montreal Sets Up for Canada's First World Music Expo

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2011

The inaugural Mundial Montreal conference, taking place as part of M for Montreal this week, represents a new opportunity for Canadian worl...

Mats Gustaffson/Steve Reid/Kieran Hebden

Live at the South Bank

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2011

Kieran Hebden's career was transformed by working with Steve Reid. At a point where his jazz explorations as Four Tet had started to strain...