Reviews

Riverscape

Fabrizio Paterlini

This new album from Italian pianist Paterlini is true to form in following the ambient pattern that has seen him...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Tigre Qui Pleure

El Gato Negro

El Gato Negro is as far from Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy Black Cat as you could get. Hiding behind the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Badieh II

Badieh

Formed around the nucleus of Michel Gasco (rubab, oud) and Mohammad Miraghazadeh (tar, setar), Badieh is an exploration of the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This is literally a cassette mixtape, limited to 300 copies, although also available digitally. The mechanics of cooking, the sociability...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

A DOS

Lau Noah

The joyously uncategorisable Catalan singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Lau Noah criss-crossed Europe and the US for more than a year...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

El Terreno

Jacob Gurevitsch

Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Yoshitsune

PoiL Ueda

Yoshitsune is a concept album that hits like a comic book punch. The psychedelic hard-rock of French group PoiL proves...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Liminal Silence

Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder

Now here’s an album that defies easy categorisation, in which Sunny Kim, a Korean-born singer, improviser and composer joins forces...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Deep of Time

Cory Seznec

Cory Seznec’s fourth album, Deep of Time, conceived and produced during the COVID-19 lockdown, presents a contemplative, metaphysical, ethereal side...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Early Life Forms

Vitja Pauwels

This feast for axe freaks captures the live debut of a new supergroup assembled by Brussels-based multi-instrumentalist and sound sculptor...

Reviewed in issue March/2024