Reviews
Some Part of Something
American-born, Scotland-based harpist Cheyenne Brown, dobro player and guitarist Dave Currie and master percussionist Dave Boyd first got together as...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Laments
Independent vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and somatic healer Laurel Premo offers a quietly stirring catharsis in Laments, a grief work in four...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: January/2026
Monkey Man & From the Roots
It's likely that everyone reading this magazine will have heard of Toots Hibbert, the 76-year-old legend of Jamaican music who...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2018
Afrique Victime
The last album by Mdou Moctar, often dubbed ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara,’ was a devastatingly deadly assault by electric...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2021
Azerbaijani Gitara, Vol 2
Bongo Joe Records’ first foray into gitara music from Azerbaijan (the aptly-titled Azerbaijani Gitara by Rüstem Quliyev, released in 2020)...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2024
Otherworldly
The Pyramids formed at Antioch College, Ohio in 1972 as an avant– garde cosmic jazz band, influenced by the likes...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2013
Pyhä Veri Vuotaa
The early morning mist rolls in across the water and pulls you into a hidden landscape; it’s enticing, haunting, mesmerising,...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: April/2022
Éthiopiques 27: Centennial of the First Ethiopian Music Recordings
The latest volume in the É t h i o p i q u e s series presents a conundrum...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: March/2011
The Life of Birds
The guitarist of the Beautiful South has gathered together a formidable flock of folk talent for his debut solo album,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
