Reviews
Truth be Told
Shama Rahman's jazz flirts with trip-hop and acoustic music to such an extent that her French verses in the title-track...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
The Blue Road
World music fusion comes in many shapes and forms but, in the case of Colombian bassist Juan Garcia-Herreros (aka Snow...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
On Time
Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the fourth album by Daryl Shawn, a maestro of the nylon-string guitar who comes from...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Every Little Spirit
Another reviewer has written that this disc is ‘perfect Sunday morning music’: this is a very astute observation, but the...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Chiaroscuro
Baird Hersey & Prana with Nexus
A collaboration on many levels, this album brings the innovative instrument-building skills of Garry Kvistad, the multiphonic singing abilities of...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Tender Blues
Yoshio Machida plays the steel pan, but those expecting to hear a Japanese-influenced answer to the steel band music of...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Musique de France
Adding to the rich heritage of Middle Eastern and North African music blended with European electronica, Parisian collective Acid Arab...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Diwan of Beauty and Odd
Singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef is one of music's unrelenting explorers. From his roots in Tunisia he has travelled...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
The Myth of the Golden Ratio
This London-based quartet is made up of the three brothers Yussef, Ahmad and Kareem Dayes (who play, respectively, drums, trombone...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Dance Me to Heaven
Victoria Klewin & The True Tones
Funded by fans and daydream believers comes this first album from a tight little unit currently making waves in the...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
