Reviews

Late Night Tales Presents Version Excursion Selected by Don Letts

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The filmmaker and broadcaster Don Letts first found fame as the ‘Rebel Dread’ DJ who introduced punks to reggae at...

Reviewed by David Katz in issue: December/2021

It Wasn’t Hard to Love You

Fanfare Ciocarlia

Is this the last album we will hear from Fanfare Ciocarlia? The world’s foremost Balkan brass band are not retiring...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2021

Natura Sonora

El Búho

Though British, Robin Perkins emerged out of the Latin American downtempo scene of the early 2010s under the alias of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021

Máscaras

Mas Aya

Mas Aya, aka Brandon Valdivia, is a Toronto-based Canadian-Nicaraguan producer and multi-instrumentalist known in that city for his work with...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2021

Grounded

Cara

Originally due to be released as The Spell of Winter in December 2020, COVID-19 lockdowns have forced a much later...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2021

Project Masnavi

Eishan Ensemble

Closely following their acclaimed albums Nim Dong (2018) and Afternoon Tea at Six (2020), Sydney-based Persian-jazz group Eishan Ensemble reconfigure...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2021

Prayer’s Tale: Taiko Drums & Asian Percussion

Joji Hirota | Joji Hirota & The London Taiko Drummers

Joji Hirota is a percussionist, shakuhachi (bamboo flute) player and vocalist who has been presenting Japanese music to worldwide audiences...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2021

Lumba

Tamala

The acoustic trio Tamala’s second album harvests a generous crop of 13 long songs, featuring Mola Sylla and Bao Sissoko...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2021

Reclaim

Mishra

Home-recorded entirely live-in-the-room, in a farmhouse in Gloucestershire, Mishra’s new album sets out its stall via an eclectic musical fusion...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021

Connectivity

Grace Petrie

Grace Petrie has her huge following of loyal fans and their propensity for singing in mind on her aptly-named new...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: December/2021