Reviews
Music in the Realm of Fireflies: Improvisations for Peace and Healing
This is meditative music, created by a group of Japanese and Japan-based musicians playing Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Korean, and Mongolian...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue:
A Sound Heart
Whatever/Whoever is the translation of Jaubi (pronounced jaw-bee) and ‘whatever sounds good’ is the band’s guiding principle. The Pakistani jazz...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2024
Mohini
Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Mosin Khan Kawa
Norway-based Sudeshna Bhattacharya is one of very few female sarod players, having begun training aged just eight, initially with her...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: June/2025
Man Shall Be Free
This Ghanaian group’s debut is a fresh collection of highlife jams. Guitar lines unwind through the compositions like a labyrinthine...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2025
Chule Chule Iwe
Gasper Nali’s third album arrives six years after the previous Zoona Malawi and continues his singular musical journey from the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2025
December/Sedimonthole
Founded by the late South African singer-songwriter Khusi Seremane and US producer and musician Gabriel Cyr, Thaba includes musicians from...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2025
Seeds Are Sewing
Listening to this on the day the UK Supreme Court stripped trans people of their rights was bittersweet. Alex Etchart’s...
Reviewed by Rosie Solomon in issue: July/2025
Maa palaa
This is renowned Finnish singer, fiddle player and jouhikko (bowed lyre) virtuoso Päivi Hirvonen’s third solo album away from the...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2025
Glaschu – Songs to a City
Native Gaelic speaker Màiri MacMillan transforms three decades of Glasgow life into a stunning musical tribute with her new album...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2025
Laini Tan
More than seven years after her debut, the second solo album from Egyptian-born, Montréal-based Nadah El Shazly brings all the...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2025
