Reviews
The Birth and Death of Stars
MZAZA are a six-piece band with an Australian-European line-up and an aesthetic that recalls the free-spirited romanticism of Lhasa de...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Global Control/Invisible Invasion
Tunisian producer Sofyann Ben Youssef, aka AMMAR 808, created an extraordinary album Maghreb United, a Top of the World in...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Boring & Weird Historical Music
As hard to categorise as it is to stop listening to, Boring & Weird Historical Music is a genre-defying aural...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Peacock
Dr L Subramaniam & Roby Lakatos
The meeting of two virtuoso violinists from different genres is always interesting. Roby Lakatos is from a long dynasty of...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Rivages
Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki
This is a very beautiful album of accordion and guitar. French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has appeared on several ECM albums,...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Ferrari Safari
Best known to us for his series of field recordings of African traditional music and for reissuing the 22-CD Historical...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Kiss, Cuddle & Torture: Volume 2
Following their debut album, Kiss, Cuddle & Torture: Volume 1, the London-based mash-up reggae band The Hempolics have now released...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Afternoon Tea at Six
Following just two years after their excellent 2018 debut Nim Dong, this second recording by Sydney ethno-jazz collective Eishan Ensemble...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Spirit
Spirit is the maiden voyage of Buster Sledge, a progressive bluegrass trio based in Oslo, where California-born fiddler and lead...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
