Reviews
Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds
A few months after completing filming for yet another major musicological project, multi-instrumentalist-folklorist Mike Seeger discontinued treatment he had been...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2020
Yours to Break
During the writing of their third album, the three East Pointers were scattered across the globe, each a long way...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2020
Ancestors
Built almost solely around the simple spine of his guitar, soulful voice and African percussion, the fourth album from the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020
Fin'amor
In Fin'amor, Lamia Bedioui and Solis Barki are conduits for a great many musical styles, traversing both time and place....
Reviewed by Shukri Habib Ali in issue: March/2020
Suburban Exotica
Suburban Exotica is the new album from the ‘Belgian-new-wave’ jazz collective Compro Oro. The group display a myriad of influences...
Reviewed by Marek Tymków in issue: March/2020
Gold Has Worn Away
Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess
Benji Kirkpatrick is a founder member of big-band folk trailblazers Bellowhead and a current member of Faustus, but he is...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2020
The Trance of Seven Colors
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders
The mystical Sufi music of the Moroccan Gnawa people has long been a source of fascination for jazz musicians attracted...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2020
Hed
The seventh-born of the well-known Kreiz Breizh Akademi musical laboratory from Brittany, this collective is based on the famous tradition...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: March/2020
Somos
Behind mestizo musics often lie unique stories. In the case of the three Villalobos brothers, it's a tale for our...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
