Reviews
North India: Sangeet Trio in Concert
This live recording of ‘Raga Jog’, made in Paris in 1995, brought together for the first time three fascinating representatives...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Odoïa
This is the second album from the Ensemble Mze Shina, which means ‘Inner Sun’ in Georgian. e four singers, Denise...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2018
Dancing Under the Moon
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Led by Bachir Attar
Cosmic, gargantuan, ecstatic and best played very, very loud, the Master Musicians of Jajouka need little introduction. Since Beat writers...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2022
Areas of High Traffic
Yorkshire-based Ulsterman Damien O’Kane is a familiar name from his key role alongside his wife, Kate Rusby, in her band,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico
Arturo O'Farrill & Chucho Valdés
On Familia, two Latin jazz pianists pay tribute to two celebrated forefathers of the genre: Bebo Valdés and Chico O'Farrill,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Kalan Teban
Aly Keïta, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli
When this trio's first release, Kalo-Yele (reviewed in #117), came out in 2016 it promised much but delivered rather less....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2020
L'Oiseau du Ciel
Congolese music has for many years been struggling to re-establish its position as one of the most potent of contemporary...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2017
The Happy Prince
As tribute bands go, the Brothers Nazaroff are one of the more eccentric out there. Named after the elusive Nathan...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2016
Breathe
Laura-Beth Salter, one-sixth of the all– women group The Shee, first performed the songs and music that make up this,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2013
