Reviews
Elkwort
Nottingham-based Ben McElroy’s Elkwort summons up an atmospheric, filmic soundscape. This cinematic quality is echoed in the inclusion of an...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2025
Teleology
If this really is the final album from Peggy Seeger, then the great lady is going out in style. Released...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2025
Alhambra by Night
Alhambra by Night is the second outing for a musical collaboration between Dutch flamenco guitarist, Jacco Muller, and American oud...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2025
African Jazz invites OK Jazz
There were two main protagonists in the evolution of Congolese popular music in the 1960s: Joseph Kabasele (alias Grand Kallé),...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
Cacofonia
A Brazilian based in Los Angeles, Gabriel da Rosa’s music pays tribute to his homeland with a gently modernised updating...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/2025
Mad Dogs
Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet Grace Rogers comes from a family of old time, traditional and stringband musicians – during...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: August/2025
Iration Steppas: Dubs from the Foundation
Founded in the early 1990s in Leeds, Iration Steppas is the creative brainchild of Mark Iration and one of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: August/2025
Quattro
Bonifica Emiliana Veneta return with a brand-new recording after nearly two decades. Quattro refers to both their fourth release and...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: August/2025
