Reviews
There Is Beauty, There Already
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album is a singular experiment in slow listening and percussive potential. It emerges alongside...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025
Songbird
In the summer of 2024, Shooter Jennings, son of the famed country outlaw Waylon, began sorting through hundreds of his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2025
Edge of Blue
Released in 2000, producer Chris Franck and jazz-dance and soul DJ Patrick Forge’s debut album as Da Lata, Songs from...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: December/2025
Soon In Your Village
The Balkan Voodoo Orchestra has unleashed this year’s primary global fusion spinner, with all disparate elements intact, shaven down to...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2025
Saha Gnawa
Collaborations between jazz musicians and members of the Afro-Moroccan Gnawa community are nothing new, though they rarely seem to live...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2025
Living Being IV (Time Reflections)
It’s French accordionist Peirani whose name is on this album, however, it should be joined by another: soprano saxophonist Emile...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2025
Fly Higher
Fly Higher drops shortly after genre-crossing fusionists Soothsayers celebrate 25 years together – and what a way to celebrate! The...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: December/2025
Finishing
Best known for his vocal, kora and balafon work with the glorious Afro Celt Sound System, N’Faly Kouyaté now shows...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
Farewell, Angelina
Having made her name as the ‘queen of folk’, singing all acoustic and mostly traditional material, by 1965 Baez was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Guajiro Chic
Following a four-year studio album silence, famed Cuban singer Raúl Paz returns with a good-natured set that leans into themes...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: December/2025
