Reviews
Samba Azul
The back of Samba Azul's self-titled debut reads like the playlist of a particularly nerdy Brazilian music enthusiast, featuring obscure...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: July/2019
Hitsville Re-Visited
Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu
The cavalcade of 1970s and 80s African album reissues shows no signs of slowing. This one, originally released in 1982,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2019
The Burial of Kojo
Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian American visual artist, MC and bandleader with a clutch of interesting, forward-looking albums under...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019
Summer in Lviv
It's 30 years since the creation of The Ukrainians, a unique phenomenon of British-indie-rock-meets-Ukrainian-tradition. It began with guitarist Peter Solowka...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2019
Drawn from Deep Water
First formed as a duo in 2015, Gnoss (now a quartet) have been steadily making a name for themselves on...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2019
Philantropiques
First up, a confession: having seen French jazz/soul/funk/rap producer Guts on stage and been less than impressed, I had low...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019
Long Story Short
The cello has never featured very prominently in jazz. Bass player Oscar Pettiford is probably the best known (occasional) cellist...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2019
Orchestre Univers
Two years after his successful Univers-Île album [a Top of the World album review in #132], Jeremy Labelle, a forerunner...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: July/2019
London to Addis
This is a simple idea with a great pay-off: record traditional Ethiopian krar (five-stringed lyre), washint (wooden flute), masenqo (single-stringed...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2019
