Reviews
Medicine Songs
Buffy Sainte-Marie was one of the breakout stars of the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. Not only was she...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018
Baile Bucanero
The first Ondatrópica album was recorded in Colombia's legendary Discos Fuentes recording studio. Unfortunately – criminally, in fact – that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2017
Mind Maintenance
Chicago-based Joshua Abrams is a jazz bassist whose career encompasses a range of experimental strands. He’s long been an aficionado...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2021
Ghost Owl
Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow
It's boom time for bird-themed music. Folksinger Sam Lee has his nightingales project; composer Cosmo Sheldrake's Wake Up Calls samples...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: November/2021
The Cycle
A deep contemporary African groove underpins this release – the first of album length from dance music experimentalists Raz &...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2023
A Drop for Neptune
A Drop for Neptune marks the debut album for Glasgow based six-piece TRIP, and it’s an album steeped in the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2022
Tördelős
Sax and flute player Mihály Dresch is the leading figure in Magyar jazz and he formed his first quartet in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2017
Safe Passage
Fresh out of touring as bandleader for Pimps of Joytime, and a collaboration with CedricBurnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J explores instrumental...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: January/2021
The Rough Guide to Cajun & Zydeco
Compiler Herman Fuselier – a writer and broadcaster in Opelousas, Louisiana – states that not one of the artists on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse
The first track on Širom's A Universe that Roasts Blossoms for a Horse sounds like an intro to an adventurous...
Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: November/2019
