Reviews
Aegina’s Secret
Yinon Muallem | Yinon Muallem & Guy Mintus
After a visit to Aegina, one of the Saronic Islands near Athens, Israeli-born composer, percussionist and oud maestro Yinon Muallem...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2026
Sandwood
Following on from two major artistic endeavours in recent years – the award-winning, multi-media project Kin and his Strathglass Trilogy...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: April/2018
Radyo Siwèl
This fresh, intriguing and unexpected set comes from a Haitian singersongwriter who had been away from the island for 20...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2018
Old Light: Songs from My Childhood and Other Gone Worlds
Rayna Gellert’s great-grandfather was a Hungarian-born orchestral violinist whose career path led to a gig on a transatlantic cruise ship...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Live in Lesotho
In December 1980 the African businessman Victor Maloi arranged a concert for Masekela and Miriam Makeba in Lesotho, a country...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Genius Loci 2: The Valley of Iron
This is the second part of the Genius Loci project from the prolific instrumental duo of fiddler Adam Summerhayes and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2022
Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno
Looking for a musical antidote to the crushing malaise? Look no further than Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno's self-titled debut....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2021
Cinema
Cinema is fusionist Kale's fifth and most ambitious album and was recorded in New Delhi, New York, Mumbai, and Ibiza...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2011
Dub Will Keep Us Together
Formed by the late great Nick Page after a visit to Ethiopia, Dub Colossus were an inspired and experimental British...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2026
Yellow Spaceship
Jacob Gurevitsch is a flamenco guitarist from Denmark. His third album, Yellow Spaceship, sails through a seductive soundscape of flamenco,...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2022
