Reviews
Chaos
On first play of this sparkling debut album from Nigerian 12-piece Lagos Thugs, it’s hard to believe you’re not listening...
Reviewed by Russel Higham in issue: March/2024
All My Friends
A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024
Synthesizing the Silk Roads
The title and subheading (Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock and Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia) say...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: November/2024
We Have Waited Too Long
At the height of apartheid in 1983, Darius Brubeck, son of the legendary jazz giant Dave Brubeck and an accomplished...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Concert Program
Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Simon Jeffes
The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
1990
The village of Szászcsávás in Romania only has 1,000 inhabitants, but its fame far outweighs its size thanks to its...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2019
