Reviews
8 Miles from Rusk
Jason Dea West & The Siskiyou Crest
Boasting a backstory that includes younger days as a busker and freight train hopper, as well as working the circus...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: August/2025
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVII: Gnawa World Blues
Majid Bekkas with Nguyên Lê, Hamid Drake
Gimbri and oud player Bekkas, guitarist Lê and drummer Drake: each has an extensive CV of collaboration through and between...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/2025
Northern Rhapsody
Led by Persian tar virtuoso and composer Hamed Sadeghi, Sydney-based jazz quartet Eishan Ensemble return with their fourth album –...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: August/2025
L’amour à la folie
You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Perhaps in recent years, we grew guilty of rather taking for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Farewell, Angelina
Having made her name as the ‘queen of folk’, singing all acoustic and mostly traditional material, by 1965 Baez was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Scottish Cowboy Ballads & Early American Folk Songs
Also known as Sorley the Bard, Shackleton developed his chops busking on the streets of Edinburgh with his father, Norman...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Fly Higher
Fly Higher drops shortly after genre-crossing fusionists Soothsayers celebrate 25 years together – and what a way to celebrate! The...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: December/2025
Horses
Country, and especially 70s country, is at the core of Tobacco City’s sound. The band, fronted by Lexi Goddard and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2025
MUTANT
MUTANT is the perfect name for this shape-shifting album of bulbous beats by Moroccan producer Guedra Guedra (Abdellah M. Hassak)....
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: October/2025
Aura Reworks
Aura, the 2022 debut album by Hokkaido-born, London-based singer Hatis Noit, was a triumph of highly technical abstract vocal work...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: October/2025
