Reviews
Posse of Fireflies
Yorkshire-based Karnatic singer Supriya Nagarajan recalls the India of her youth on this record, which highlights the wonder and mystery...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2022
Every Man for Every Man
Ghetto Priest, best known as the Rastafarian frontman for electronica/fusion legends Asian Dub Foundation, has released this solo album as...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: November/2017
Ritual
For her sixth album. Spanish performer, composer and music producer Ana Alcaide offers what she describes as a ‘hymn to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2022
The Songs Which Are
This Toronto-based ensemble continue their exploration of musicalising the work of the late self-taught Nova Scotia poet Alden Nowlan, around...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2023
Find Your Flame
When artists pile on the special guests, sometimes you wish they wouldn’t. However, this nine-piece powerhouse from Leeds have managed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2024
Desh
This is Jocelyn Pook's score for Akram Khan's dance piece Desh (Homeland) – an investigation into his Bangladeshi ancestry, premiered...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2013
Java
Over the past decade or so, the Samba-sunda collective have done more than anyone to proselytise on behalf of music...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: March/2012
Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust &Contempt from the 1920s &1930s
Thanks to dedicated researchers like Art Rosenbaum and ardent collectors like John Heneghan, a New York-based musician whose precious library...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2011
O Fado em Nós
For quite some time, it looked like Pedro Moutinho would never live up to the rather unfair job of stepping...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
Speech of Species
This follow-up to Belgian quartet Echoes Of Zoo's 2021 debut Breakout is, by all accounts, a concept album exploring the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2023
