Reviews
Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa
Now in his 80s, Taj Mahal is the grand old man of American roots music and follows 2022’s old-timey Get...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024
Sun Without the Heat
New Orleans-based Leyla McCalla is known for making moving, socially conscious music that takes in all her various influences, from...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: May/2024
Saru l-Qamar
Shivers. Another manifestation of electro-ambient-music from the Global South. I had to think of Naujawanan Baidar’s Khedmat Be Khalq, the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: May/2024
A LA SALA
The Texas-based trio of bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald ‘DJ’ Johnson Jr and guitarist Marko Speer may be best...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024
The Otium Mixtape
David Kiledjian is a producer/musician based in Lyon. This debut solo album puts us in touch with Lyon’s futurist electronic...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2024
Essentials
We often associate Iranian music with long, melancholy pieces. But Persian culture is rich in folkloric music as well, rooted...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: December/2023
L’Bnat
Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou
The second album by Gnawa maalma Asmâa Hamzaoui and her all-female group Daughters of Timbuktu is a bass-lute thudding, qaraqab-clattering,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024
After the Morning
Wyndham Baird’s music lives at the intersection of witting imitation, authentic reinterpretation and inspired creation. He sings like his (mostly)...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
