Reviews
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There's no sign of The Gloaming losing that special touch on their third studio album, which opens with an intense...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019
Streams
The Paris-based guitarist Nguyên Lê is known for his distinctive style of world jazz. His previous albums combine jazz improvisation...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: May/2019
Traversées
Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Jardins Migrateurs, the previous collaboration of Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko was described here as ‘ a disc of regal and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019
Working Hands
Shetland Islander Jenna Reid is often seen involved with Blazin' Fiddles and fiddle quartet Rant, but here she has regrouped...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2019
GALW
You've heard freeform jazz. What about freeform, avant-garde, New Age, Welsh folk music? This debut from the duo Sianed Jones and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane
The Bushinengé people from French Guiana and Suriname are descended from escaped slaves who fled to the Amazon and intermarried...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Wavelength
Bene & Cormac are Glaswegian fiddler Benedict Morris, newly anointed as BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year,...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2019
Visions of Iraq
Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2019
Siri Ba Kele
Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band
Baba Commandant is the stage name of Sanou Mamadou, a gritty-voiced singer and musician from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso's second city...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2019
Ilana: The Creator
Saharan rock fans have good reason to be excited by this new release. From the raw and punchy opening number...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2019
