Reviews
Aqui
This is Carla Pires’ third solo album, though she has notched up many other achievements in a career that stretches...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: December/2016
Hadal Deluxe Edition
This deluxe edition collects Texas-based jazz quartet Atlas Maior’s recorded output from the past four years. It’s an album of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: September/2024
Sufiyan
This is quite an extraordinary project for fans of the Turkish ney – the reed flute that is at the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2012
Balafon Evolution
Hailing from Côte d’Ivoire but now based in Berlin, we first came across the balafon player Aly Keïta as part...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2026
Mighty Poplar
This bluegrass supergroup that sees members of the Punch Brothers (Noam Pikelny and Chris Eldridge) join bassist Greg Garrison (Leftover...
Reviewed by Emma Rycroft in issue: April/2023
Spirits of Mauronoros
The ancient world and the turbulent present collide to great effect on this, the second LP from the Greek woodwind...
Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: November/2024
Rebelión Tropical: The Very Best of Fruko & Joe Arroyo
These tremendous songs from the Colombian legends – bass player, percussionist, producer and song-writer, Julio Ernesto Estrada Rincon (aka Fruko)...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: June/2011
The Art of the Geomungo Sanjo
This reviewer must admit to being a big fan of sanjo, the extended, almost jazzy Korean instrumental genre. It typically...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2013
Djamila
Here's a second album from Mamadou Kelly, a guitarist and singer from the Malian area of Goundam and Niafunke –...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2015
