Reviews
Estar Ahí
With or without his band La Chicana, Acho Estol’s music always has something of a tea-concert quality. An airy lightness...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2022
LAS
Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie & Steven Byrnes Haberlin
Now here’s something pretty remarkable, the first album of double C smallpipes to be released anywhere in the world. LAS...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2022
The Space Between
Kicking off with a fiery, drum-pounding reel courtesy of Jerry Holland (‘Brenda Stubbert’s Reel’) and closing with the rather spooky...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2022
¡Ay!
¡Ay!, the seventh solo release from Colombian-born, Berlin-based musician and producer Lucrecia Dalt, is an album of twin concepts. The...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: November/2022
Flea Market Music
Leonardo Marques, guitarist of Udora and sound recordist to the likes of Milton Nascimento, returns with a fourth solo project,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2022
Lulanga Tales
Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters
Veteran of the Brussels music scene since the late 1980s, multi-instrumentalist Nyati Mayi has roots in the Congo, and on...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: November/2022
Who Are We?
Born in the largely Algerian neighbourhood of Barbès in Paris, the quintet Al-Qasar mixes hypnotic North African trance grooves and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2022
Miniatures
Self-styled ‘musician explorer’ Axel Moon and old friend Niko Shin formed Ko Shin Moon in 2017 after the former had...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: November/2022
Jaya
Chandra Lacombe has been playing and recording since the early 80s, the Brazilian musician gaining renown for his intertwining of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: November/2022
Songs from the Pearl of Khorasan
The story of Afghan rubab master Nasim Khushnawaz is as fascinating as it is fraught with unimaginable adversity. Born in...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2022
