Reviews
Timber
Add Bryan Rahija to the ranks of superb fingerstyle guitar pickers from the Piedmont region – Durham, North Carolina, to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2021
Across the Divide
Constant international touring for the last decade, including a stint opening for The Jools Holland Orchestra, as well as playing...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2016
Magic Fire
Unlike previous Stray Birds recordings, Magic Fire is mostly devoid of anything especially magical or combustible. Produced – or, more...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2016
Django l'Impressionniste
Perhaps best known for his Grammy-winning soundtrack to Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, this French-born guitarist and composer has virtually...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2020
Vari
Innovation born of mastery of tradition is a central tenet of GroundUP, the record label founded by Michael League. And...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024
So Kono
Salif Keita was supposed to have stopped recording. The singer-songwriter, nicknamed the ‘African Caruso’ and the ‘Golden Voice of Mali’,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2025
Griot Jazz
Those lucky enough to be backstage for rehearsals of the African opera Le Vol du Boli, taking place at a...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: March/2022
La Otra Mitad
Nothing startles these days. Postmodernism has attuned us to collage, palimpsest and pastiche. But this sampling of sonic essays on...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2019
Bêdawîtî
Based in Germany, Kurdish tanbur (lute) player Cemîl Qoçgîrî has worked with Kurdish singer Aynur, notably on the Hawniyaz album...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2018
