Reviews
The Butterfly Effect
British singer Ranjana Ghatak is well-known for her work uniting North Indian and Western musics, especially jazz, working with some...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2020
Just My Soul
This is the fourth album by Erik Aliana, the first two having been in the Bikutsi and Makossa styles of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2017
Kaustinen Live 2003
Thankfully someone had the good sense to blow the dust off some tapes from this fantastic concert performed a decade...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Thokozile Collective
Bournemouth-based six-piece Thokozile Collective play instrumental jazz-funk with an African bent. Their debut album – seven covers and two originals...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2024
Väntenätter
This is a welcome second album from a trio formerly known as Eriksson/Myhr/Malmström, three musicians from Norway and Sweden who...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/2024
Live in the Khaleej!
Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi & Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill
This project is inspired by Al-Mulaifi’s grandfather, one of the last of a generation of Kuwaiti master pearl divers, and...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: May/2025
Moda Antiga
On this, her third album, the Cape Verdean singer hailed as a worthy successor to the great Cesária Évora focuses...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: February/March/2025
Trioliadam
This collection of traditional Norwegian tunes was originally recorded in 1981. The results were never released, the master tapes lost,...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2024
Souffles
French-Syrian flute player and singer Jalal follows up her stunning 2023 album Healing Rituals with this set of wind duets....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/2025
