Reviews
Making Waves
Luke Daniels’ Revolve and Rotate EP featured the sounds of the extraordinary Polyphon, a sort of vaudevillian organic-analogue synth –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2017
Hakili Kélé
The veteran Malian griot Mah Damba believed she had recorded her final album when she made 2010's À l'Ombre du...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Seven
French blues guitarist and singer Tia Gouttebel teams with Gilles Chabenat (vielle à roue, aka hurdy-gurdy) and Fabrice Bony (percussion)...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2024
Chronika
Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars
After nearly 15 years playing trumpet in America’s seminal klezmer band The Klezmatics (with whom he is still active), Frank...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2024
Masters of Our Roots
A masterclass of 20th century Cuban-American showbiz, this has all the vintage allure of a night at Havana's Tropicana, or...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: September/2025
Watching the Well
Naim is a jazz label with an outstanding contemporary artist roster and a reputation for top-flight sound quality and production....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Dove Voglio Stare
A popular act in the Neapolitan live scene for the past 12 years, Tartaglia Aneuro gather around singer and frontman...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2024
The Reeling
The Reeling ends with the great singer and piper Rona Lightfoot, now 82 years old, giving a little laugh of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
