Reviews
Delta Bound
‘In New Orleans,’ Holly Devon’s liner notes suggest, ‘memories linger in the humid air.’ Under the aegis of guitarist and...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Yeshi Dolma
Tenzin Choegyal, Katherine Philp & Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra
Yeshi Dolma is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between Tenzin Choegyal from Tibet and Australian Katherine Philp. They...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds
Orkney-born musician Merlyn Driver grew up listening to the calls of the curlew. It was a sound that made such...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
The Sargasso Season
From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
ECHO
It’s been ten years now since Catrin Finch, the classically-trained Welsh harpist, first began working with Seckou Keita, the British-based...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
From Kabul to Bamako
Pretty much your standard Persian-Malian-Afghan-Kurdish-French-Ethio-jazz group, Sowal Diabi (‘Question’ and ‘Answer’ in Persian and Bambara respectively) is a collaboration between...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Flavour of Africa
French duo Libreville make music that radiates musical and political positivity and in the current climate that feels like a...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Ancient Tribal Hearts
Prepare yourself for the mystical noise of Ka Safar – a 13-piece world jazz juggernaut whose name means ‘Spirit Journey’...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Set Me Free
Keyna Wilkins & Jalal Mahamede
Last year from his detention cell in Brisbane, Ahwazi Arab refugee poet-artist Jalal Mahamede recited his poems via Zoom while...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
Tierra Quemada
Largely self-taught, clawhammer banjoist, fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter Paul Tasker renders the nine instrumental compositions on Tierra Quemada with sparkling...
Reviewed in issue May/2022
