Reviews
Mediterasian
This young Italian Gypsy jazz guitarist was ‘hooked for life’ on first hearing Django Reinhardt as a 16-year-old. During a...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
La Colère de la Boue
Charkha's second outing, La Colère de la Boue (The Anger of Mud), explores our complex, emotional connection to the natural...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Evening Star
The ten members of the American women's choir Kitka are heirs to a project that began 40 years ago in...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
The Wave
Composer Marcus Davidson has form when it comes to mixing things up musically, blending an ethereal chorus with the intense...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Placeless
Kronos Quartet and Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat
Given the track record of Kronos Quartet and Iranian singers Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat, it's not surprising that this is a...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Astrakan Project: Inês
This latest release from Alves & Gourvil's Astrakan Project is an album of nine songs with an accompanying illustrated book...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Artisena
Joachim Mencel, a Polish pianist and composer, has created a cycle of eight jazz compositions inspired by traditional Polish folk...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Sentimento Popolare
Camilla Barbarito's musical journey is a rich and meandering one: as a young girl she spent time in Mali, and...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Blackmoon1348 with the Tibetan Monks of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
Blackmoon1348 with the Tibetan Monks of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
This record comes in the wake of a historic tour in which the Tibetan monks of the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Inner Rhyme
French-Lebanese composer and violinist Layale Chaker's debut album, Inner Rhyme, which took two years to compose between Beirut, Paris and...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
