Reviews
The Handover
The Handover are a trio of Aly Eissa, Ayman Asfour and Jonas Cambien, their eponymous debut consisting of two epic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2024
Scenes from uniXia
boci describes her second, even more esoteric, album as a psycho-magical concept set in her own world, uniXia: “During a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2025
Music of Angola
Manuel Diogo mixes traditional and contemporary Angolan gospel music: he blends recognisable gospel sounds – from the harmonies of African...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2015
Khalik Hena
There is surely no sound more richly redolent of 20th-century Arabic music than the great, swooning Egyptian orchestras that accompanied...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2022
Carvings
Norwegian guitarist and singer Juni Habel caused a quiet stir with her debut, with some quarters likening her to Nick...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2023
Fragmentarium
Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Apneseth hosts his biggest band so far, a sextet featuring percussion, bass, accordion, guitar and keyboards, this...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2020
Balkan Grooves
And so the Balkan train rolls on. Berlin label Eastblok – one of the first to the party with DJ...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Super Son
Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo
Despite the name of Cuban trombonist Torres’ band (‘Something New’), 50 years later these 1977 cuts can’t help but sound...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: September/2024
Willows
Pekka Kuusisto, Sam Amidon and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Willows opens with ‘The Lark Ascending’, in which Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto strips Vaughan Williams’ tone poem of the romantic...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2026
