Reviews
PAN Project
Taking their name from the Korean music-storytelling tradition pansori – meaning ‘to gather’ or ‘come together’ – PAN Project is a...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Doroja
Santiago Córdoba & The Bauls of Bengal
One of the most striking things about Baul music – a form of folk music from Bengal, South Asia – is its...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Tango Macondo
Despite its name, Tango Macondo is not a tango record. It’s a soundscape of real and imaginary lands, born out...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Magma
Taking inspiration from Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti, as well as traditional Western and Oriental music, this fourth album from...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Reclusive Rituals
In his first album for Batov Records, Tel Aviv-based jazz bassist Shay Hazan takes his sound in a different direction....
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Yellow Spaceship
Jacob Gurevitsch is a flamenco guitarist from Denmark. His third album, Yellow Spaceship, sails through a seductive soundscape of flamenco,...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
The Lost Tapes
The Lost Tapes is the fourth album from the Owiny Sigoma Band and sadly it celebrates the end of the...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Our Island
When the debut Small Island Big Song album was released in 2018, it was rightly hailed as a mini masterpiece....
Reviewed in issue March/2022
Wood & Steel
This is a simple, but fascinating meeting of French jazz flautist Joce Mienniel playing a Western Boehm-system classical flute and...
Reviewed in issue March/2022
