Reviews
Meera
Living at a time when women were confined to the home, the 16th-century Hindu mystic-poet Meerabai (bai being an honorific...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/February/2024
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Driss El Maloumi Trio & Watar Quintet
Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi has cropped up frequently in these pages, both with a couple of Top of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024
To Heart, To Earth
Rick Pedrosa is a multi-instrumentalist from Portland, Oregon, devoted to the sweep and the slide, the clank and the shiver....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/2026
Joshua / Same Day Walking
New York guitarist Mason Lindahl’s follow up to Kissing Rosy in the Rain is a double album of sorts, with...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2025
Cancionera
We know Natalia Lafourcade can turn on the intimacy and intensity. On 2024’s Live at Carnegie Hall, she managed to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2025
En Kötü Iyi Olur
Turkish trio Lalalar are a pretty convincing example of how oppression can cause unruly bursts of refusenik artistic expression. The...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2023
Chantent en Français
Chantent en Français starts with a jaunty bout of string-picking, strumming, a squeeze of accordion, a parting curtain of strings...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2013
Agam
This is an enjoyable, if not shatteringly novel, collaboration between a couple of musicians who met by chance in a...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
