Reviews
Streams
The Paris-based guitarist Nguyên Lê is known for his distinctive style of world jazz. His previous albums combine jazz improvisation...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: May/2019
Wriggle and Writhe
Having recently won both the Best Duo and Best Musician awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, expectations are...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2012
Reckless Saints
There's something retro and regional about Kim Mayfield's fluffy girlish vocals that pleasantly invokes the late and legendary Tammy Wynette,...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2019
Festival Jump-Up
Now, the first CD here is something of a revelation, containing as it does the first ever reissue of Lord...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2020
Sanctuary
Sanctuary opens with ‘When Will We Find?’, a song that asks desperate and universal questions: when will we find love,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2016
Greater Jamaica
Producer Duke Reid's compilation advertises ‘Reggay at its best’ – that's reggae circa 1969, as connoisseurs will note from the...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
La Part du Hasard
Twenty-three years, 12 albums, one theme: Xavier Demerliac's oeuvre is as steadfast as a train steaming down the track. Each...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018
African Revolution
Tiken Jah Fakoly is perhaps Africa’s most gifted reggae artist, stepping deftly in the footsteps of fellow Ivorian Alpha Blondy....
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music
Frank London Glass House Orchestra
The Glass House Orchestra takes its name from the Üvegház (Glass House), a building used by the Swiss diplomat Carl...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2017
