Reviews

Riverscape

Fabrizio Paterlini

This new album from Italian pianist Paterlini is true to form in following the ambient pattern that has seen him...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2024

New Ancient Strings

Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko

Reissued to mark the 25th anniversary of its 1999 release on Joe Boyd’s Hannibal label, New Ancient Strings remains a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024

Way Highly

Brad Fielder

A salty dog of an album, Oklahoma roots musician and one-man band Brad Fielder’s new album (or long-ish EP), Way...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2024

Algo-Ritmo: Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004-2024

Mexican Institute of Sound

This compilation of 24 songs spans the two-decade career of Mexican Institute of Sound, aka Camilo Lara. Named as one...

Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: May/2024

Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar

David Murphy

Two worlds, two traditions, collide to enjoyable effect in David Murphy’s long-playing debut, Cuimhne Ghlinn, its Explorations in Irish Music...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2024

Oyoun Al Kalam

Ramzi Aburedwan & Dal’Ouna Ensemble

Originally recorded in 2007, Oyoun Al Kalam, by multi-instrumentalist Ramzi Aburedwan & Dal’Ouna Ensemble finally gets a digital release 17...

Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: May/2024

High Above Harlesden [Box Set]

Creation Rebel

Creation Rebel are pioneers of the UK dub scene. Emerging from working-class London in the late 1970s, their music stepped...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2024

Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves

Jembaa Groove

Jembaa Groove’s 2022 debut album was a highlife highlight (a Top of the World in #177). The Berlin-based group elegantly...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2024

We Have Waited Too Long

The Jazzanians

At the height of apartheid in 1983, Darius Brubeck, son of the legendary jazz giant Dave Brubeck and an accomplished...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024

PsychoTropical

Los Guayabo Brothers

Guayabo is Colombian slang for hungover, but it can also mean nostalgia for your homeland, the famous saudade in Portuguese,...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: June/2024