Reviews
Spider Tales
As a teenager growing up in Virginia, Jake Blount played guitar in funk and metal bands until one day he...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2020
Mi Tumbao
Bayamo is one of those small Cuban cities somewhat off the main tourist drag that surprise with their conviviality and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2020
At the Studio
The Zonke family hail from Nyampanda, a small border town on the Zimbabwean side of the boundary with Mozambique. They...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2020
Peacock
Dr L Subramaniam & Roby Lakatos
The meeting of two virtuoso violinists from different genres is always interesting. Roby Lakatos is from a long dynasty of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020
Shine
Caroline Keane has had an increasingly prominent presence on the Irish and international touring circuit since she was 15. Now...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2020
Dark Matter
Ever since 1982, when Australia’s I Goanna band gifted I radio stations their enduring Top 10 hit ‘Solid Rock’, the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Obi
Yutaka Oyama is a master of the Tsugaru shamisen school in Japan, having learned at the foot of his grandfather,...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: October/2020
Los Duendes de la Marimba
This album was recorded in the house of the Torres family (keepers of the Torres dynasty, masters of Colombia’s Pacific...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2020
Rivages
Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki
This is a very beautiful album of accordion and guitar. French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has appeared on several ECM albums,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020
Halak Halak
Snaking synth lines and exotic chord sequences collide with vigorous bass-laden beats and housey bedrock foundations, as East meets West...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: October/2020
