Reviews
Drifters & Vagabonds
With one foot in Scotland, the other in Austria and a few other limbs in Sweden and Vienna, Black Market...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Kobani
Ferhat Tunç's latest album is nicely packaged, with the songs competently translated into English. If you are unfamiliar with the...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: October/2016
Astrakan Project
This album has nothing, as far as one can tell, to do with the town on the Caspian Sea or...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2013
Week of Pines
On her debut album, Aberystwyth-born Georgia Ruth plays harp, piano, reed organ and bells, and her band features multiple guitars,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2013
Ce Monde Ici-Bas
They have been described as a ‘Québécois power trio,’ and the group’s power, apparent in their former stint with La...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2014
Afrobeats Hot Hits: The New Sound of Urban Africa
The sounds of Afrobeats are not to be mistaken with the music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The crucial ‘s’ denotes...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2017
Home
There's an intimate warmth and bloom about this classical sitar album, which is largely thanks to Anoushka Shankar's sublime playing,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Good is Good
This is an album of powerful instrumental jazz, based on the ancient traditional music of the Dagaare tribe and Guo...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2015
