Reviews
Tear in the River
Berlin-based bansuri player Roy Sunak's debut album, Tear in the River, can’t be faulted musically, even if its concept –...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2023
Cumbia Beat Vol 2
The garish cover looks like the sort of booty shaking bootleg you might pick up at the massive black market...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Burn Burn Gypsy Love
Given the popularity of Gypsy music, it's perhaps surprising that Russian Gypsy music isn't a big part of the scene....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
66-76
When Masekela arrived in New York in the early 1960s, his fellow trumpeter Miles Davis took the exile to one...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Who He?
Ian Carr & The Various Artists
Carr is considered by many fellow musicians to be the most original guitarist on the block and is cited by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2015
Lotus Wight's Ode to the Banjo
Lotus Wight is the nom du guerre of Toronto native Sam Allison, a songster, folklorist, poet, fiddler, banjo historian and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2016
Keys to Friendship
Aeham Ahmad meets Edgar Knecht
This is an album with quite a story behind it. The Syrian musician Aeham Ahmad played piano in the refugee...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018
Making Waves
Luke Daniels’ Revolve and Rotate EP featured the sounds of the extraordinary Polyphon, a sort of vaudevillian organic-analogue synth –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2017
Awal Mara
Having made his first instrument as a boy from a tin can and old bicycle brake cables, the blind Moroccan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2010
Wayward Daughter
‘Grey Gallito’ is a work of steamy jazz that sounds as if it was recorded in Havana. It is also...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2013
