Reviews
Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars
Last year the sarangi player Suhail Yusuf Khan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist James Yorkston and double bass player Jon Thorne...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017
El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbonó
How many roots can a musician tie up in his signature sound? According to this album’s extensive liner notes, the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2014
Arise
Jamaican vocal trio The Abyssinians became legends with their seminal 1976 album Satta Massagana, which made an Afrocentric statement via...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2016
Ormenion
I loved this disc. It brings to the fore the lively musical traditions that straddle the border of northern Greece,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2020
Mae ’na Olau
Siân James, Gwyneth Glyn, Meinir Gwilym and Gwenan Gibbard first sang together five years ago, and after recording five songs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
Songs by Geirr Tveitt
This music is fragile, meditative and delicate, with soundscapes leading us into secret, intimate places. The names on the album...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Supreme Talent Show
Upon listening to this album, it is clear that MC Waraba and Mélèké Tchatcho deserve the confidence their album title...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Three Seconds | Kolme Toista
Finnish guitarist and oud player Jussi Reijonen has allowed nearly a decade to pass between his debut album and this...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/February/2023
Incoming!
Riot Jazz Brass Band are one of the UK's foremost new brass bands. Taking the template of the pit bands...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
