Reviews
Five Rivers
For more than 30 years, the British-born Indian singer Najma Akhtar has operated largely beneath the radar, releasing a series...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Wa
Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
This really is like no other Middle Eastern recording you are likely to encounter and it is best to say...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Dance to the Full Moon
Invisible System is multi-instrumentalist and Frome resident Dan Harper, whose initial reputation was made via his Ethiopian fusion work, a...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Tàradh
Although the quartet have been making music together since 2006, this is Simon Tacker's Ritmata's debut album. It is worth...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
King'n'Doom
The core of King'n'Doom is Czech production and multi-instrumentalist duo Pavel Šmíd and Martin Piro, but the real heart of...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Navarasa: Nine Emotions
When the Scottish folk singer and guitarist James Yorkston, double bassist Jon Torne and the Indian sarangi maestro Suhail Yusuf...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Fin'amor
In Fin'amor, Lamia Bedioui and Solis Barki are conduits for a great many musical styles, traversing both time and place....
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Suburban Exotica
Suburban Exotica is the new album from the ‘Belgian-new-wave’ jazz collective Compro Oro. The group display a myriad of influences...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
The Trance of Seven Colors
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders
The mystical Sufi music of the Moroccan Gnawa people has long been a source of fascination for jazz musicians attracted...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
Catastrophic Life
“The Marx Brothers on acid; the nightmare of Benjamin Netanyahu; freaks; millionaires on a mission impossible; a great story,” this...
Reviewed in issue March/2020
