Reviews
Guitar Improvisations & Tashi Dorji
These two albums were originally issued solely on cassette by Headway Recordings, a now-defunct local label in Asheville, North Carolina,...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2024
Nay’ Indaba
In the Xhosa language, indaba refers to an authorised meeting, such as a conference of chiefs, called to discuss a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024
Songs of My Land
A classical soprano with a decades-long career in early music, Chiyomi Yamada moved back to her native Japan in 2022,...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2024
Vrindavan – 1982
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar | Zia Mohiuddin Dagar & Pandit Taranath
Presented as a double LP and in digital form this is an outstanding, although previously unheard, recording of the rudra...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2024
Waralungku
Back in 2013, Darwin-based Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter Shellie Morris released the album Together We Are Strong – Ngambala Wiji Li-Wunungu:...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2024
Grace Will Lead Me Home
Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne & Jon Bickley
Last year was the 250th anniversary of the writing of ‘Amazing Grace’ while next year is the 300th anniversary of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Sonido Cósmico
Hermanos Gutiérrez have been winning hearts around the world with their transcendent guitar sound recalling desert skies and lonely highways....
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: July/2024
