Reviews

Trotula

Hartmann Ensemble

Hailing from Salerno, Italy, Hartmann Ensemble release a debut whose title is inspired by Trotula De Ruggiero, a celebrated woman...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2021

Path of Seven Colors

Ches Smith & We All Break

Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2021

Cancún

Calle Sur

Despite this being a 20th-anniversary album you can be forgiven for not knowing much about the band Calle Sur –...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021

The Great Blue Wheel

Meelodi

Bergen-based but worldly in concept, Meelodi is the brain-child of Norwegian Ole Andre Farstad and Iranian Medi Farmani. On this,...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2021

Atlântico

Fapy Lafertin New Quartet

Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021

Tobie

Dagadana

Dagadana’s fifth studio album should be given kudos as an attempt to provide ‘cheerfulness and generosity’ in our often gloomy,...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2021

Astor Piazzolla: Aconcagua/Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Martynas Levickis

There are too many random, unfocused, greatest hits cover albums of Piazzolla’s work, so it’s good to see a record...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021

Cantos

Okonkolo

Capturing the slow-burning fervour of an Afro-Cuban bembe – the rituals paying homage to the orisha deities of the Santería...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021

Manduka

Manduka

That Alexandre Manuel Thiago de Mello (aka Manduka), born in Petrópolis, a city in the south-east Brazil, isn’t a bigger...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2021

Iorram

Aidan O’Rourke

Iorram (Boat Song) begins with electro-washes of ambient sound, swooping back and forth, as if in the process of self...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021