Reviews
The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1
Cleveland Watkiss is known both as a gifted jazz vocalist and a founding member of Metalheadz – the drum’n’bass outfit...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
Thamesis
If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2014
ARC
Although this is only McGoldrick's fifth solo album in 22 years and his first since 2010, the genial Manchester-based flute,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2018
Trikala
One wonders whether in a past life Simon Thacker was a Bengali itinerant Baul mystic musician, or perhaps a South...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: March/2019
La Légende de Dakar
One thing that can never be faked or replicated is the easy, yet super-tight swing of a band that has...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Hiva
Ahmad Al Khatib & Kaveh Mahmudiyan
Ahmad Al Khatib and Kaveh Mahmudiyan have created Hiva, an album of traditional Ottoman-styled oud and percussion commissioned by Global...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: June/2024
I Too am a Stranger
The Sorcerers are not exactly prolific – this is their third album in nine years – but they are a...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2024
Djiyo
Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto
Anyone who heard Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto on their last collaboration, Instant from 2022, will probably want to hear...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2025
