Reviews
Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War
Show of Hands with Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton
There will be few finer artistic tributes to the cataclysmic experience of World War I in this centenary year than...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)
‘Emergency ethnomusicology,’ as they call it, is a set of urgent interventions needing to be taken to record or preserve...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2017
Psychedelic Trance Tarantella
Kalàscima come from Salento, at the southern end of Italy, which boasts an explosive musical culture. The cover of this...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2016
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
Havana Central
London’s jazz scene is teeming with talented musicians long overdue their dues. The 20-piece genre-hopping outfit Sunlight Square Combo is...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
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
Neath the Gloaming Star
West Lothian singer Hannah Rarity had already toured with Irish-American band Cherish the Ladies when she won the BBC Radio...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018
At the Wrong Gig
Every so often, a radio station will produce a playlist of the best songs for driving. The likes of Bruce...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
