Reviews
Oide Oide
Brain Damage x Emiko Ota x Mad Professor
Every track of this ’post dub’ album brings a smile to my face, even on repeated listenings! It is a...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: June/2025
Improvisations from the Doyen of Kurdish Nay
Respected as a sideman of numerous Persian artists, Kurdish ney or nay (reed flute) virtuoso Shaho Andalibi presents his first...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2025
Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2
Woody Guthrie recorded these raw and intimate home tapes in his Brooklyn apartment during 1951 and 1952 as demos for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025
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After having previously released an album of immersive improvised music with her trio Sharav, interdisciplinary composer and qanun player Yael...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
Nueva Timba
López-Nussa is a Cuban pianist (lately living in Toulouse) who draws from both Latin jazz and his native folkloric sounds....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2025
Sîn
Did you ever go into a shop selling vapes and mobile phone cases and the dude behind the counter is...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2025
Cavejaz
Fabiano Do Nascimento | Fabiano do Nascimento
Nascimento is a Brazilian-American guitarist, who performs on a range of multi-string, variously tuned, nylon string guitars. Cavejaz is split...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: February/March/2026
O Que Mais Você Quer Saber De Mim
How can this Bahian folk-MPB songwriter differentiate himself from his contemporaries on his second album, when there are many others...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: April/2026
