Reviews
Ruminate: Improvisations for Fretless Guitar and Dutar
American multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Marin is steeped in many music forms: on Ruminate he proves himself an imaginative interpreter of the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022
Khalik Hena
There is surely no sound more richly redolent of 20th-century Arabic music than the great, swooning Egyptian orchestras that accompanied...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2022
Flying into Mystery
Bowed but definitely not beaten by pandemic isolation, Moore responds with one of his finest offerings in years. Flying into...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2022
Andy Irvine/Paul Brady
Not quite the first reissue as claimed by publicity (a 2008 CD having beaten it to the punch), but a...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2022
Griot Jazz
Those lucky enough to be backstage for rehearsals of the African opera Le Vol du Boli, taking place at a...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: March/2022
Yellow Spaceship
Jacob Gurevitsch is a flamenco guitarist from Denmark. His third album, Yellow Spaceship, sails through a seductive soundscape of flamenco,...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2022
Ji
This pairing between German ex-Embryo bassist Pollheide and Indian sitar player Imran Khan marks the culmination of seven years of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: March/2022
#Mr Lakaaye
Lekan Babalola has an impressive track record as a musician (percussionist and composer/arranger) and filmmaker. One of Nigeria’s outstanding jazz...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2022
It’s a Good, Good Thing: The Latin Soul of Fania Records
Fania Records was started by Dominican musician Johnny Pacheco in 1964 with the idea of getting Latin recordings made by...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022
