Reviews
La Vendange
La Très Illustre Compagnie du Chat Noir
This weird and wonderful project is the brainchild of three Dutch musicians – Marijn de Valk, Rik Bosch and Daan...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014
Leeroy Presents: Fela is the Future
A French hip-hop and beatboxing hero from the early 2000s, Leeroy is at the controls here as curator and producer...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: April/2018
On Firm Ground/Tierra Firme
Jane Bunnett is the pioneering Canadian saxophonist, flautist, bandleader and educator whose work with Afro-Cuban jazz remains deft, groundbreaking and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2020
Brasil Bam Bam Bam
‘What was a French boy, living in South London, doing putting up aerials at the age of 15 so he...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2014
Lampascioni e Cianfrusaglie
Le Tre Sorelle (the Three Sisters) are a young female trio of singers and multiinstrumentalists, who are not actually sisters....
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2014
Quicksand
The French producer Philippe Sanmiguel moved to Bamako 16 years ago and has since produced a raft of fine albums...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022
The Art of the Daegeum Sanjo
The latest of Inédit's series of Korean sanjo releases is for daegeum, a horizontal bamboo flute with a resonator and...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Apr/May/2015
The Art of Mandolin
First things first: Simon Mayor is an extraordinarily talented mandolin player. He is clearly a little obsessed: the CD booklet...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2014
Real World 25
Real World began life in 1989 with Passion, the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ, scored...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
