Reviews
Piazzolla 2021
French prodigy Louise Jallu took an interest in tango when she was five and has been playing virtuoso bandoneón since...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2021
Bahía
Ana Carla Maza is a virtuoso Cuban composer, cellist and singer. Her latest album, Bahía, takes you on a spellbinding...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: April/2022
The Hum
A neighbour of Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow brought them news that the sale of a house close by had...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2014
Al-hambra
Ahmed Mukhtar & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde
Baghdad-born Ahmed Mukhtar studied oud and Western percussion in London. On this album, inspired by a visit to Granada’s Alhambra...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
Catastrophic Life
“The Marx Brothers on acid; the nightmare of Benjamin Netanyahu; freaks; millionaires on a mission impossible; a great story,” this...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2020
Resonance
The musical pedigree of Pitjantjatjara man Bart Willoughby goes back to the late 1970s, when he founded the pioneering Aboriginal...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017
Victoria Hanna
Victoria Hanna was born into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family deep in the heart of Jerusalem. On one side of the...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Fringe Music
A trio of Norwegian jazz instrumentalists took a road trip in the Appalachian mountains; this whip-smart, virtuosic album of improvised...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015
Istanbul
Given that Frankfurt DJ and producer Shantel had already gone to his ancestral home in the old borderlands of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Tradi-Mods vs Rockers – Alternative Takes on Congotronics
The Congotronics remix album was inevitable, of course. The primitively electrified ambience of Konono No 1 and the Kasai Allstars...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
