Reviews
Sulla Rotta dei Venti
North East Ska Jazz Orchestra are back with a powerhouse album to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Taking listeners on a...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: July/2024
Grace Will Lead Me Home
Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne & Jon Bickley
Last year was the 250th anniversary of the writing of ‘Amazing Grace’ while next year is the 300th anniversary of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
The Pearl Album (Live in Celebration)
Alternating songs with jigs, reels, slides, marches, hornpipes and airs, The Pearl Album celebrates 30 years of music making by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2025
Kaira
Toumani Diabaté | Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
This was the album that created an icon. The late Toumani Diabaté released his debut Kaira in 1988 and it...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2025
Ti Galé
Ti Galé is an album of exuberant solo accordion music by René Lacaille, venerable master of sega, the dance music...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2025
Two Boats Under the Moon
Those who have followed Donald Lindsay’s musical output may be surprised to learn that Two Boats Under the Moon is...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: July/2025
Tuff Times Never Last
Seven-piece collective Kokoroko are one of a clutch of UK acts that channel the righteous grooves of Afrobeat into their...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: September/2025
Jawaya Jathum
Jawaya Jathum translates as ‘The Guitarist and The Music Lover’, these being Polycarp Otieno (aka Fancy Fingers) and sweetly soulful...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
Northern Rhapsody
Led by Persian tar virtuoso and composer Hamed Sadeghi, Sydney-based jazz quartet Eishan Ensemble return with their fourth album –...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: August/2025
All Tied Together
The fourth album from the brothers Diarmuid and Brian MacGloinn and their collaborators is packed with fine melodies and great...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: February/March/2026
