Reviews
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
New Music for the 12 String Guitar
In the early 60s, when stereo was a novelty, record labels released demonstration albums introducing listeners to the wonderful world...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Bahia Com H
Perhaps because she worked alongside the likes of Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento – among other Brazilian greats –...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2022
A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse
The first track on Širom's A Universe that Roasts Blossoms for a Horse sounds like an intro to an adventurous...
Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: November/2019
Hâfez & Goethe: Divân
Abed Azrié is the sort of intellectual musician who could probably only flourish in France. Born in Syria’s most cultured...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Works
John Spiers and Jon Boden are best-known now as the musical masterminds at the heart of folk-burlesque big-band Bellowhead. They...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011
Tomorrow People: The Best of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
The Melody Makers, on the surface, look like Jamaica's version of the Jacksons. Featuring four of Bob Marley's numerous children...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2014
Diamonoye Tiopité L'Epoque de I'Evolution
Idrissa Diop & Cheikh Tidiane Tall
In 1974, a millionaire Senegalese businessman named Ndiouga Kebe opened Sahm, the first shopping complex in Dakar. It had its...
Reviewed by Jenny Cathcart in issue: June/2011
The Tokyo Concert
This stunning live album of Astor Piazzolla was recorded at Tokyo’s Shibuya Kokaido theatre on November 21, 1982, at the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2012
Impredecible
After plugging away through various stylistic incarnations, from the ska of their debut to the guitar-based cumbia of their subsequent...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
