Reviews
The Borametz Tree
There's a lot to enjoy under The Borametz Tree, a musical interzone from Cambridge guitarist C Joynes, encompassing desert blues...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Songs That Made Us Free
With a predominantly South African cast among musicians from 17 other countries, this multicultural collection of freedom songs, old and...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
The Burial of Kojo
Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian American visual artist, MC and bandleader with a clutch of interesting, forward-looking albums under...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Philantropiques
First up, a confession: having seen French jazz/soul/funk/rap producer Guts on stage and been less than impressed, I had low...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Long Story Short
The cello has never featured very prominently in jazz. Bass player Oscar Pettiford is probably the best known (occasional) cellist...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
London to Addis
This is a simple idea with a great pay-off: record traditional Ethiopian krar (five-stringed lyre), washint (wooden flute), masenqo (single-stringed...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
There is No Other
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
Having only reviewed the wonderful Giddens-curated collaborative album Songs of Our Native Daughters in #147, it's a surprise to welcome...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Ben Haana Wa Maana
Popular Palestinian rap trio DAM return with a third album that features the same political and social fervour as the...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Bamboo
This is a welcome full reissue of the experimental album from 1970, which is highly prized by collectors. Shakuhachi (Japanese...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
