Reviews
8 Miles from Rusk
Jason Dea West & The Siskiyou Crest
Boasting a backstory that includes younger days as a busker and freight train hopper, as well as working the circus...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: August/2025
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVII: Gnawa World Blues
Majid Bekkas with Nguyên Lê, Hamid Drake
Gimbri and oud player Bekkas, guitarist Lê and drummer Drake: each has an extensive CV of collaboration through and between...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson 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
Humanicity
The Upsetter is back, and this time he's wearing a curly yellow clown's wig and sounding as if he's left...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013
Keep Hauling (Music from the Movie)
Thirty years ago a group of friends – some actually fishermen – got together on the Platt (the hard ground...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
968 CR13
Massilia Sound System surged out of the 80s underground party scene in Marseille. They're the group that pretty much single-handedly...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
Sanguis Meus, Mama!
Ilkka Heinonen Trio | Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L
You’ve got to admire the Finns. They revive one of the world's most unpromising instruments – the jouhikko, a rather...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
I Speak Luganda
The endongo is an eight-stringed lyre from the area around the Great Lakes in East Africa. Joel Sebunjo has performed...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Karma
After Jambinai, Black String are the best known of the intriguing new batch of experimental folk bands from South Korea....
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2019
Santié Papang
Few female vocalists have successfully ventured into La Réunion's politically-charged maloya music. The Indian Ocean blues was initially banned by...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: March/2015
