Reviews
Gatherings
John Smith is best experienced live, which is just as well, as he often spends 200 days of the year...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: February/March/2026
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 by Bill Badley in issue: April/2020
Notes from the Boat
It's an incredible line-up that Mike Vass has gathered for his latest album, with guests including Anna Massie, Duncan Chisholm,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2018
Qalaq
Born in Beirut at the outset of a civil war that devastated his country and set the pattern for decades...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2021
Svalan
Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström
Maria Kalaniemi's latest release Svalan (Swallow) shows her throwing caution to the wind, heading into the countryside of her childhood,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2017
Incantations
In recent years, there has been an effort to broaden the expressional potentials of Iranian classical music. The genre has...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: May/2022
1000 Watts
Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno
On his latest release Quantic returns to the Flowering Inferno moniker he used for his 2010 album Dog With a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
In Mumbai
Equally at home in both the trad and jazz worlds, saxophonist, piper and whistler Fraser Fifield is one of those...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020
Mornas de Cabo Verde
For the past half-century, the languid and lush musical genre morna has been successfully exported from its birthplace, a volcanic...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: November/2016
