Reviews
Out of the Ashes
Folk, blues, swing, world music and jazz combine to weave their trade winds across UK-based French singer Julie Abbé’s fine...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2024
Sheger
Trio Kazanchis +1 (so named because there's four of them) originally released Sheger in 2019 as their final album, just...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: September/2025
Músiques Per Emportar-Se a Illes Desertes
Clavellina d'Aire is the Catalan word for a bromeliad or air plant. These grow not in the earth but high...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2023
Portu in Core
Followers of Corsican supergroup I Muvrini (The Mountain Sheep) will know the formula: voices steeped in tradition; an ensemble that's...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: April/2020
Mother
George Xylouris and Jim White are a mesmerising double act, what with the Cretan laouto player and singer's nimble string...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2018
Write It Down
The second album by self-described “New York-based rock and roll and rhythm and blues garage gospel band” Jackson and the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2025
Rolê: New Sounds of Brazil
Reviewing a 43-track compilation of new Brazilian music in which every band sounds completely different – each combining different influences...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2014
Routes
Often when a band boasts of playing a mix of dub, punk, jazz, ska and Balkan music it means they...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2014
Gnawa or Never
Maalem Said Damir & Gnawa Allstars
It is difficult to record Gnawa music well – the sonic mix of the gimbri's (lute) deep bass and the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017
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Tibet: Lam la Che (On the Road)
The fragmentation of Tibetan culture over the last half-century has led, for better or worse, to an astounding variety of...
Reviewed by Tom Hamilton in issue: July/2014
