Reviews
Where the River Bends is Only the Beginning
This is the 12th volume in ten years in Glitterbeat’s Hidden Musics series, all recorded by Ian Brennan in his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2024
Moving Home
From Bosnia to Brisbane via Sweden and Slovenia, the Australian-based trio East of West span all points of the compass...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Highlife
In his previous work, Ghanaian trumpeter Peter Somuah has brought flavours of highlife into the idiom of contemporary jazz. With...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2025
Magic Nights
Fifty years after his debut LP, Christ Moore's latest solo offering sees the Irish icon trawling though his live back...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2020
Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelles Caniques
Stanley Brinks & the Old-Time Kaniks
Indie-folk is often terrible: a ham-fisted, middle-of-the-road mush of xylophones and ukuleles that is unashamedly twee and contrivedly cute. Thankfully,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2017
The Worst is Yet to Come: Best Of 1995-2017
Norway's Los Plantronics have been rocking for more than 20 years now, hence this double CD or double-vinyl compilation. The...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018
Son Con Guaguancó
To mark the centennial of Cuban legend Celia Cruz’ birth, Craft Latino is reissuing a series of classic recordings. Opening...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2025
Eva
An Algarve-born singer of Cape Verdean extraction and a founding member of the MTV award-winning group Nu Soul Family, Dino...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2014
We be All Africans
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
African-American jazz musicians were undoubtedly the pioneers of what's become known as world music. In the 1950s, Dizzy Gillespie's music...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016
En Couleurs
The Louisianan twenty-somethings in Feufollet were raised on Cajun music, and have showcased their respect for tradition and their considerable...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
