Reviews
The Golden Lagoon
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band (henceforth referred to as KLFSDB for the sake of trees and inkwells everywhere) present...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
Bahdja
Manuel Hermia & Kheireddine Mkachiche
Though best known for jazz, Manuel Hermia's oeuvre traverses a wide range of musical genres and styles. The Belgian saxophonist,...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2019
Decade: The Best of Lau 2007-2017
How can one possibly put together a compilation of the most exciting, musically adventurous trio in British folk without leaving...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2017
Nomade Orquestra
While it's surely purely coincidental that São Paulo's Nomade Orquestra formed in 2012, the same year Azymuth's José Roberto Bertrami...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2016
Hollie Cook
Music is in Hollie Cook's blood. Her father is Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook. Having grown up in West London,...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: October/2011
Exaltação
If you're the sort of person who likes to know what they're getting into ahead of time then this is...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: March/2019
MistO-MistO
The press release talks of a ‘primordial soup,’ the cover art suggests something cosmic and funky in a Fela Kuti...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Ahwar
This album is here, there and everywhere. Meaning it is jazz; it is traditional Arabic folk; it is avant-garde; it...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2018
