Reviews
Shakespeare Songs
Opening with an a capella version of the witches’ curses, spells and premonitions from the murky first scene of Macbeth...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
Nādī
Over a series of impressive solo albums, the guitarist Guy Buttery has established himself as a major force in South...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020
Hjeltamôs
Per Gudmundson & Bengan Janson
A crackling fire under a summer sky, dried flowers on a windowsill, a wistful smile and the coolness of grass...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2018
Lindé
After years of playing with Ali Farka Touré, Afel Bocoum seemed well placed to take over the great man’s mantle...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Live at the Sydney Opera House
The oud is normally rather a modest instrument, so an oud concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Almas Rebeldes
Sudaka is a racial slur for ‘South American,’ used as often ironically as pejoratively. With this album of upbeat, cumbia-influenced...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Eplemøya Songlag
My first experience of Eplemøya Songlag was in an old fashioned wooden room in the old Bank building in the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Exaltação
If you're the sort of person who likes to know what they're getting into ahead of time then this is...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: March/2019
Revolucionario
As well as his scintillating signature sound, at least a dozen sublime albums, and hundreds of compositions, Astor Piazzolla bequeathed...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2019
MistO-MistO
The press release talks of a ‘primordial soup,’ the cover art suggests something cosmic and funky in a Fela Kuti...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
