Reviews
Anticipation
Born out of a tour around Trans-Pecos (west Texas), this first album of instrumental duets by guitarists Knowler and Winter...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: May/2021
Excavated Shellac: An Alternative History of the World’s Music
What should you give someone who listens to a broad swath of ‘global music’? How about a 100-track compilation of...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2021
A Pegada Agora é Essa
This exciting project from multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Antonio Neves asks a simple question: what’s the sound of Rio today? Rather...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: May/2021
Same Self, Same Silence
Hossein Alizadeh & Rembrandt Frerichs Trio
‘Same, same, but different,’ as they like to say in Thailand. The Rembrandt Frerichs Trio released a magnificent album with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021
Ambuya!
Piranha Records have delved into their archives, looked in the ‘1987’ box and recovered the record that started it all...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2021
Chinmaya Dunster presents… MELA: Beyond Tradition
There is no doubting the devotion with which sarod player Chinmaya Dunster, the progenitor of MELA, approaches his musical projects....
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2021
Kagabas
Just when you weren’t waiting for a steaming chiva bus up to the mountains of the Colombian coast, along come...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2021
Up the Cut
For Black Country native Jon Wilks’ third album he has eschewed the fuller arrangements of 2018’s Midlife for a lean...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2021
Orkney Monster
Well, here is a bit of fun. Orkney-based big band The Chair are a formidable and electrifying presence. With a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2021
Anoura
In 2018 the Malian guitarist Anansy Cissé and his band were travelling to a festival in his hometown of Diré...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
