Reviews
Presents… Kingsize Blackfoot
Jinder is one Phil Dewhurst, a West Country based musician who is very tall and has Blackfoot Sioux bloodlines in...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017
New Luk Tung
This album is the latest Thai release from Japan's EM Records and marks a departure from previous reissues of Thai...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: December/2019
Balabeatz
It’s the fourth album in almost ten years for this band created in Toulouse when balafon virtuoso Seydou Diabaté and...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: July/2025
Kapaim
Multi-instrumentalist Uri Brauner Kinrot has been leading his Ouzo Bazooka outfit for over a decade now, helping pioneer a blend...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: September/2025
There Is Beauty, There Already
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album is a singular experiment in slow listening and percussive potential. It emerges alongside...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025
Cajun Honky Tonk: The Khoury Recordings Vol 2
Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz has long been one of the great record collectors and has reissued much ‘lost’ music....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2013
Capacity to Love
What do you do when you’ve performed from atop the Eiffel Tower, sold out such prestigious venues as the Barbican...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2022
Son Con Guaguancó
To mark the centennial of Cuban legend Celia Cruz’ birth, Craft Latino is reissuing a series of classic recordings. Opening...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2025
Sound the People
Brooklyn-based Red Baraat are an international, bhangra-infused version of the brass bands that accompany Indian weddings and festivals. Their latest...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018
A Wanderer I’ll Stay
Sweet, sincere harmony singing and a deft, relaxed approach to old-time, traditional and contemporary folk music are what characterise this...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2015
