Reviews
Dubs & Versions I
Glitterbeat Records have created an original album that is like an echo of a ‘Best Of’: they have given dub...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
21 Spices
Trilok Gurtu with Simon Phillips & NDR Big Band
Setting aside his wonderfully adventurous series of world music fusions, 21 Spices finds Trilok Gurtu returning to his early jazz...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
Wolo So
Five years in the making, this debut album by the Balimaya Project (balimaya meaning ‘Essence of Kinship’ in the Maninka...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: October/2021
Matchless
Formed in 2005 under frontman Steve Lewis’ direction, Deep Cabaret are a shapeshifting group who’ve made a name plumbing the...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2025
I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits
Here is a remarkable compilation of modern rural acoustic guitar and vocal music from Botswana. One of the performers on...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Mansana Blues
British blues guitarist Ramon Goose and Senegalese kora (harp-lute) player Diabel Cissokho have teamed up here on a kora-blues album...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2010
Westward the Light
There's a perception of the current crop of young Scottish trad bands that paints them all as playing their own...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
Mount the Air
Two years in the making, in their own studio in an old granary building in Northumberland, this utterly enthralling album...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2015
Solo & Indrė
Cross-cultural kora and string collaborations have been rather in vogue for the last couple of years, and for good reason:...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Divan & Divine
Zeyn’el is a singer-songwriter who is well-known in the Turkish rock scene as a sound engineer, and some of that...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2023
