Reviews
Cumbia Beat Vol 3
Few places in the world were seemingly unaffected by the emergence of electric guitars and the success of The Beatles...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Sol: A Series of Reflections
From the very first track, ‘Call’, it's clear that in Sol, Joshua Hyde intends to deal more in atmospheres than...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
The Magid Chronicles
At the height of the klezmer revival in the 1980s and 90s, there were dozens of (mainly) US bands reinterpreting...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Joy!Guru
‘Here Comes the Moon King’, the 12-minute opening track, sets the mood. It begins with a prelude of tingling stillness;...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Field and Dyke
I grew up in Herefordshire, a place that, like South Holland in Lincolnshire, missed the post-war migrants who came to...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Silk Baroque
This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
White Night
The ‘white night’ of this album's title comes from an anonymous Japanese poem about a cuckoo that sings all the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
História do Choro
História do Choro is an ambitious, meticulous and well-executed journey through the history of an iconic Brazilian genre led by...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Voices and Percussions
Brazilian percussionist, arranger and composer Silvano Michelino's project Boca de Tambor is a journey rich in timbres, rhythms and textures,...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
