Reviews
Saudade, Colour of Love
Maria Mendes is a Portuguese jazz singer that has developed her career in The Netherlands for the last 15 years....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023
Shivelight
‘Shivelight’ is the light that dances and dapples through a canopy of trees; something that captures the essence of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018
For the Love of Tabla
North India’s favourite percussion instrument, the tabla, has always been relegated to being an accompaniment and it was the subservient,...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2022
Kalba
Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon
Recorded in a church in north Ghana, this charity-driven collaboration between Ghanaian xylophonist Isaac Birituro and British producer and singer-songwriter...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: October/2019
RDS-202
KermesZ à l'Est are not only the wildest Balkan band in Belgium, but probably on the planet. I first encountered...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2020
And it Was Good
While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017
La Madrugá
This new album from Yasser Tejeda comprises a slick and very enjoyable collection of nine tracks merging two distinct traits...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: August/September/2023
Year of the Funky
The talented young guzheng player Bei Bei has teamed up, for her sophomore effort, with a very experienced producer and...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: August/2017
Sobre Noites e Dias
After a series of albums that dealt with specific themes and textures, such as dub or baile funk, Lucas Santtana...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2015
Faso Denou
The rustic Wiltshire village of Box in the Cotswolds could hardly be more quintessentially English. The Rev W Awdry, who...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022
