Reviews
Vagrant Stanzas
The inspiration for Vagrant Stanzas came, according to Simpson, from sessions at the kitchen table with his neighbour Richard Hawley,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Les Tzitzíkia: Les Cigales
Katerina Fotinaki’s debut CD recapitulates in part a Greek musical experiment from 1995 by Nena Venetsanou called Ikones, in which...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: June/2014
Bays
Aotearoa's (or New Zealand's) hi-tech, self-described ‘seven-headed soul monster’ doesn’t make studio albums in any sort of haste. This eagerly...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Escapology
As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Bless Up
The veteran Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin helped to give birth to reggae, playing on early recordings that defined the genre...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Lovely Difficult
Is it world music? Is it pop? It’s hard to be sure. Sung in French, English, Creole and Portuguese, recorded...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2014
Mountain Meeting
Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson
Some records are special from the very first moment. Mountain Meeting opens with a single fiddle tune, a burbling figure...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Desert to Douala
Pulo NDJ is a project that broadcasts from the musical midpoint between N'Djamena, Chad and New York. DJs Nickodemus and...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2019
Madremonte
Madremonte is the debut album from the Europe-based Colombian duo, Jaguar. The title of the album makes reference to an...
Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: December/2021
Olorum
Given the current situation in Brazil, you cannot help but trip on the words Mateus Aleluia sings in the opening...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2020
