Encounters is a study in subtlety. Bassist Sigurd Hole, known for his work with the famously restrained jazz pianist Tord...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2018
Ahmed Ag Kaedy is perhaps best known as one of the four musicians featured in Mali Blues, a documentary examining...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018
Birds have been companions, harbingers, auguries and symbols for humanity for millennia. We follow their song, their migrations, their flyways,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2018
This welcome, remastered reissue of a classic World Circuit album should help to adjust an imbalance created by the phenomenon...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
Finland has a small Roma community and a tango scene – both the music and the dance. So much so...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018
Anthony Joseph was raised in Trinidad, shifted to London and has, over recent decades, made a name for himself as...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018
The percussionist Thabang Tabane grew up playing in Molombo, a band from Mamelodi township on the outskirts of Pretoria, led...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
Ewan MacColl wrote the song Jackie Oates has chosen as the title-track of her seventh album when he realised his...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2018
Unlikely bedfellows they may be, but it transpires that disco and folk conspire to produce a highly satisfying reimagining of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2018
Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares
The ringing guitar and tres duets between Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo, first heard on 1986's Chanchaneando, went on to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
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