Reviews
Mahal
Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/September/2022
In Search of Sources
Unlike the Jarek Adamów album that follows this one, In Search of Sources features two Polish musicians interested in the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022
The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA
This live record is a charming time capsule, taking us back to the swinging 60s and the first fumblings of...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/September/2022
Cross the Rolling Water
Fiddler and singer-songwriter Hannah Read met banjo player Michael Starkey at an Appalachian music session in Edinburgh in 2019. They...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand
Kantrum boran, the traditional music of Northern Khmer people, is found in the lower north-eastern Thai provinces of Surin, Sri...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: August/September/2022
Quesaco?
Paris Combo are an iconic Parisian band, carried by the voice and the twinkling presence of Bénédicte Grimault, aka Belle...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: August/September/2022
Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors
Hearing Meïkhâneh’s album, Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside), is akin to waking up...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Here and There
Since its (then) undiscovered flowering in the 1970s, Ethio-jazz has spread around the musical world like an exotic plant. Before...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022
