Articles by David Lewis
Coyote Oldman
house made of dawn
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999
Marvellous for the first 12 minutes or so, this native Indian flute project suffers from the sameness of it all, as atmospheric ballad mode...
Forge Players
Flow My Teares
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999
A rival to Elvis Costello’s ambitious The Juliet Letters recorded with the Brodsky Quartet, the audacity of this Swedish project is t...
Omar Faruk Tekbilek
One Truth
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999
Virtuoso Turkish composer Tekbilek, shows his multi-instrumental prowess in “Wildflower” where he plays everything except for s...
Transjoik
mahkalahke
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999
Scandinavian throat singing and chanting is mixed with synthesisers, guitar washes, shamanic frame drums, samples and loops of historical r...
Various
West Coast World
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999
Over two hours of music on two CDs by 33 artists and groups is testimony to the rich multicultural music scene on Canada’s west coast...
Various
Four Ways of Saying H3O
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999
All new interpretations of the Hafler Trio by Aube (Kyoto), Lilith (Chicago), P.A.L.(Munich) and Propeller (Vancouver). Aube’s “...
Kila
Tóg é Go Bog é
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 1999
If Kila is an example of the new Ireland, their music offers ample cause for celebration. This is a killer Celtic album precisely because i...
Joe Harriott-John Mayer Double Q
Indo-Jazz Fusions 1 & 2
PUBLISHED Aug 1, 1999
Recorded a third of a century ago in 1966 & 1967, this reissue proves Harriott and Mayer fused jazz idioms and Classical Indian music into...