Reviews

Tongues

Tanya Tagaq

One can never be fully prepared before entering Tanya Tagaq’s latest creation Tongues. Bold and experimental, the album is a...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Hazama

Mitsune

Formed in Berlin in 2018, Mitsune began life as an all-female trio of shamisen players, fusing Japanese folk music with...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of

Cornershop feat. Bubbley Kaur

Originally issued only on CD in 2011, Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of is something of a ‘lost classic’...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Odyssee: A Journey Into the Light

Quadro Nuevo

Since their conception in 1996, this German outfit has toured the globe, released a raft of albums and scooped countless...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Lanmou Lanmou

Dowdelin

Dowdelin (a play on the word ‘dawdling’) are a four-piece band based in Lyon, France, whose name is a bit...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Hour of Solitude

Blue Mantra Rhymes

Blue Mantra Rhymes is the brainchild of Ed Cooke, an English ex-pat living and working in Thailand. A number of...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Rivers from Ogun

Ticora

The French-Swiss quartet of organist Cédric Schaerer, drummer Hadrien Santos Da Silva, tenor sax player Arthur Donnot and guitarist Erwan...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Moch

DLÙ

Taking their name from the Gaelic dlùth, meaning closeness, this exciting new quintet from Glasgow deliver a well considered debut...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Are You Invested in the Economy of Love?

ELY

While this debut release from London/Lefkosia-based project ELY features some of the UK’s finest contemporary jazz musicians – including AIM...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

PAN Project

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