Reviews

Ghost Owl

Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow

It's boom time for bird-themed music. Folksinger Sam Lee has his nightingales project; composer Cosmo Sheldrake's Wake Up Calls samples...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Unbounded (Abaad)

Purbayan Chatterjee

Inspired by Hindustani classical lineage and by John McLaughlin's fusions with Shakti alike, the 45-year old Indian sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

On Our Own Clock

On Our Own Clock

What with the London-based 16-piece Balimaya Project and a host of other new collectives finding strength in numbers, a happy...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Still Moving

Justin Adams & Mauro Durante

Adams has long been a bold and adventurous serial collaborator but this album with Mauro Durante – leader of Italy's...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Suba

Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita

Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita's debut album as a duo, Transparent Water, came out in 2017 and was a transporting...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Soleil

AMAMI

AMAMI are a Geneva-based three-piece who strive to combine dancehall, Afro pop and no wave. Soleil boasts so much; there...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Headonix

KingL Man

If you knew and loved Fun-Da-Mental, the so-called ‘Asian Public Enemy’, the agit-popping global prog-punk collective that cut a swathe...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

La Grande Fête

Belcirque

From its opening, soothing ooooh-oooohs, the third album from Belcirque has a clean, elegant sound. That might be due to...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Trotula

Hartmann Ensemble

Hailing from Salerno, Italy, Hartmann Ensemble release a debut whose title is inspired by Trotula De Ruggiero, a celebrated woman...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

The Great Blue Wheel

Meelodi

Bergen-based but worldly in concept, Meelodi is the brain-child of Norwegian Ole Andre Farstad and Iranian Medi Farmani. On this,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021