Reviews
Gaga Gundul
Since their eponymous debut in 2017, French electric jazz quartet Peemaï, from Montpellier, have rearranged Asian traditional tunes, following bassist...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: October/2024
Wild Cursive of Snowland
Reba Jicun’s debut album is a stunning blend of traditional Tibetan opera, rock, metal and Buddhist chanting. Jicun’s musical journey...
Reviewed by Yijia Tu in issue: October/2024
Salsa Salsa
In January 1983 Tito Puente took his orchestra to a club in New York, for a rousing and historic session....
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2024
Keep It Tropical
Australian-Samoan singer, ukulele strummer and drummer Bobby Alu (aka Charles Robert Fa’agalu Wall) was born and raised in Queensland’s Gold...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2024
Your Face is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars
Zhungdra music, according to Kuensel, Bhutan’s national newspaper, ‘was first performed [in Bhutan] in the 17th century to commemorate the...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: October/2024
soFa – Elsewhere CC
Billed as a ‘digger’s paradise for tropical gems,’ DJ soFa’s latest compilation spans 1972 to 2023, inspiring listeners to imagine...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2024
Wulansih
Peni Candra Rini is a Javanese singer whom I first saw performing with Kronos Quartet in their last London show...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2024
Are Possible
Six years after the release of Plainly Mistaken, banjo maestro Nathan Bowles has once again partnered with double-bassist Casey Toll...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2024
