Reviews

Ribbons

Justin Adams feat Anneli Drecker

From his solo debut with 2001's Desert Road through to his production work with Tinariwen, collaborations with Robert Plant and...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Sufi Spirit

Rocqawali

You may be forgiven for approaching this with trepidation: a Danish rock‘n’roll band playing along with qawwali (the sacred music...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

We are Connected

Jan Wouter Oostenrijk

Traditional Western rock, blues and jazz seamlessly meet the music of the Maghreb in Jan Wouter Oostenrijk's latest and fourth...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Lamomali

Lamomali

There is an uncredited English saying: ‘Be not deceived with the appearance of things, for show is not substance.’ It...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Nightfall

Quercus

June Tabor, saxophonist Iain Bellamy and pianist Huw Warren released their award-winning debut on ECM back in 2013, and this...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

M&M

Moreira Chonguiça & Manu Dibango

Old saxophonists never fade away, they just keep on blowing. It may not quite be up to Manu Dibango's ‘Big...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Year of the Funky

Bei Bei & Shawn Lee

The talented young guzheng player Bei Bei has teamed up, for her sophomore effort, with a very experienced producer and...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Love Party

Ya Tosiba

I have a confession: before listening to this I had never heard an Azerbaijani-Finnish ensemble performing club music. In my...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

They Found Asylum in the Sea

Sea Slugs

The seven-piece UK Afrobeat collective Sea Slugs have self-released three albums in four years since they formed in 2013. The...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

Year of the Clown

3 Daft Monkeys

The album's title is a whimsical comment on the political lunacy of the past year and there is certainly an...

Reviewed in issue August/2017