Reviews
We Are Each Other, This Will Set Us Free
The debut album from Bristol-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist boci covers a lot of ground musically, yet is rooted in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2022
The Complete Works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti
It’s never been easy to make a sensible suggestion when asked to nominate the best starting point to the music...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011
Goblet of Eternal Light
Ali Akbar Moradi & Bahar Movahed
Ali Akbar Moradi is a master of the Kurdish tanbur (long-necked lute) and one of the great traditional musicians of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
The Water is the Shovel of the Shore
Shovel Dance Collective's epic album dredges down through bodies of water. It shifts through the capital, raw materials and hard...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2023
Gamelan of Central Java XII: Pangkur One
‘Pangkur’ is the keystone of the repertoire of central Javanese gamelan, a tune that anyone acquainted with the music is...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2010
Tomorrow Held
Opening with minimal, subliminal guitar, very quiet and very still, an expressive fiddle soon eases in, the two shapeshifting around...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: September/2025
Gamelan of Java Volume One: Kraton Kasunanan
Not content with overseeing Felmay's series of recordings, John Noise Manis – aka the Italian composer Giovanni Sciarrino (manis is...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2010
One Night on Earth: Music From the Strings of Mali
Years in development, this fine recording is the result of white South African musician Derek Gripper having transposed seven kora...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013
Where the River Bends is Only the Beginning
This is the 12th volume in ten years in Glitterbeat’s Hidden Musics series, all recorded by Ian Brennan in his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2024
A Blade Because a Blade is Whole
Emerging from the UK’s experimental underground, DePlume’s Spotify statistics indicate that his concoction of poetry and jazz provides a taste...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2025
