Reviews
The Musical Threads of the Silk Roads
Hailing from the Basque country and sharing a name with the great 14th-century explorer who travelled from North Africa all...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
Traveling East
What makes Dutch guitarist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk’s latest and sixth solo album, Traveling East, stand out is its fascinating fusion...
Reviewed by Franki Clemens in issue: March/2024
This is What I Want to Say
Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024
Borderlines & Bloodlines
One of the standout folk albums of 2023 in the UK, which almost flew under the radar, Birmingham-based Germa Adan’s Borderlines...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March 2024
Desde Espana… La Columna de Fuego
Why it’s taken so long for this gem of an album to be reissued is one of those mysteries that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater Johnson in issue: January/February/2024
La Pluma
It’s almost impossible to categorise La Pluma other than to suggest it’s sure to appeal to those who don’t like...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024
Meera
Living at a time when women were confined to the home, the 16th-century Hindu mystic-poet Meerabai (bai being an honorific...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/February/2024
Move into the Luminous
The cool, ambient depth charges embedded across Move into the Luminous come from prolific double bassist Jon Thorne (Lamb, Yorkston...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2024
Dimanche à Bamako
If that title sounds familiar, it probably is: this album shares its name with Amadou & Mariam’s 2005 masterwork –...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2024
