Reviews
King Papaya
Accordionist, keyboard player and multi– instrumentalist Koby Israelite has produced a CD of startling grotesquerie. A grim, obsessive figuration on...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2010
Tides of Times
Since their formation in Kolkata in 2006, Gharana have waged a guerilla campaign to bring their Indo-rock fusion to a...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021
The Life & Times of James ‘The Rooster’ Corcoran’
Vincent Cross is a descendent of Irish gang leader James Corcoran, who left Dublin for New York in 1844, and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2020
Asmara
Jazz trumpeter Hermon Mehari is a Kansas City native based in Paris, but his third album, Asmara, is a reflection...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2023
Uvjamuohta / Powder Snow
I pull a CD from my shelves and check the date: 2002. I remember being captivated by this album, In...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2022
Tu Na Me Nsa
The Ghana Bigshots were originally founded as the University of Ghana's house band, and this release is supported by the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Apr/May/2015
Music in Our Dreams
There's no question that Jeff Coffin is a fine woodwind player. After all, he spent years playing in the Flecktones...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Soul Food: Food & Music, Fat & Yummy
Soul food loosely describes the African-American cooking that originated in the US South. Here, the poorest people in the US...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2013
Devil in the Seat
The American, Portland, Oregon-based group The Foghorn Stringband are the epitome of what it means to be an old-time group...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2015
Ragas on Saxophone
If this album contained anything other than ragas on saxophone any listener's disappointment would be understandable. Fortunately Phil Scarff delivers...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2018
