//25 November 2008
‘Paint It Gold’ is the second album from London’s ELENA. Don’t be fooled by the ‘rock-chick,’ tag she has on occasion been predictably labelled with. On the evidence of this album, she has more in her locker than the preconceived impression that title suggests. [...]
The giant behemoth of seventies progressive rock is awakened from its thirty-five year slumber – and it sounds well pissed off! [...]
I don’t pretend to know ANYTHING about latin, jazz funk or dance music in general, but if there’s an album that’s likely to encourage me to learn more, then this is it! [...]
It’s been quite some time since I’ve felt the need to play an album so loudly. (And, I’m fairly certain when I last did it was some po-face slo-mo drone twaddle that I felt the need to either add as much dynamic or to deafen myself and escape the horror.) [...]
Barcelona-based Canary Islander El Guincho - aka Pablo Diaz-Reixa - releases his debut, a trippy and exotic mingling of Spanish folk song, African rhythms and psychedelic beats. Would you class it as ‘world’ music? [...]
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