Reviews
Air Iomall
This is the kind of album that leaves you wanting to hear the whole CD again immediately without having to...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: October/2019
Lafz Bheege Hain – Words Drenched in Tears
Sufiscore is not just a record label but also a YouTube channel which has a huge following in Asia, particularly...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2023
Motewolonuwok
When Jeremy Dutcher released his first opus, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, in 2018, very few people outside the classical world had heard...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: November/2023
Biama
This Garifuna group is based at the Lebeha Drumming Center in Hopkins Village, Belize, which opened in 2003 with the...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: August/September/2023
Vision of Three
In 2017 Swedish viola d’amore player Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers started to realise her dream of establishing a string trio grounded...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2024
Super Son
Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo
Despite the name of Cuban trombonist Torres’ band (‘Something New’), 50 years later these 1977 cuts can’t help but sound...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: September/2024
Diaspora in Buenos Aires
This is an intimate document of a Jewish family in Argentina remembering their roots in Eastern Europe. Pianist Andrés Linetzky...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2012
Manara
Sudanese-American singer Alsarah and her Nubatones first showed up on the radar with their fantastic debut Silt in 2014. As...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2016
Best Medicine
This second release by The Stray Birds features the same combination of consummate musicianship, mellifluous harmony singing, refined taste, and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2015
Let's Go
The four daughters of the Reverend Sam McCrary (leader of noted gospel group The Fairfield Four) have built quite a...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2015
