Reviews
Spring
Katayoun Goudarzi & Shujaat Husain Khan
The joy in making music within the mystic branch of Islam known as Sufism, and the verses of the 13th-century...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Apr/May/2014
Brazilika
If you’re into Brazilian jazz then you will most certainly know about Far Out Recordings, the London-based label that have...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Holo Voyage: Inception
Inception is the inaugural release in the Holo Voyage series by Jivamukti Music, which aims to fuse devotional Sanskrit hymns...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2021
Total Reggae: Chart Hits
Total Reggae enters the Jamaican compilation market at the post-rocksteady age, choosing to dedicate the majority of its series to...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2013
Colour by Number
Having grown up in Australia’s Northern Territory city of Darwin, singer-songwriter Leah Flanagan proudly claims a mixed multicultural heritage that...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Sublime Strings – South Indian Classical Music
The violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman is part of a long line of disciples of the famous Tyagaraja, an 18th-century composer and...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2011
#NuNairobi
Not just the banner for a new wave of artists, creatives and entrepreneurs that are proud to call the Kenyan...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2019
Huam
A sense of care taken is the abiding impression left by this trio of Scottish Highland and Island folk musicians....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2020
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...
Reviewed by Susan Wilson in issue: June/2010
Néo
The title of this recording, the first album of original compositions by Japanese-American instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe, can loosely be translated...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2016
