Reviews
The Night Dwells in the Day
Jozef Van Wissem | Jozef van Wissem
Josef Van Wissem is on a mission, to transform the image of that ancient instrument, the lute, and “to update...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024
Reassembled
Rambunctious folk big band Bellowhead enjoyed a whirlwind career – playing Glastonbury Festival, winning umpteen awards and occupying London’s Southbank...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2021
Funk Globo: The Sound of Neo Baile
As the world’s eye focuses on Brazil and its impending sporting exploits, the Brighton-based label Mr Bongo release a new...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: October/2013
Euphoric Ouroboric
David Wax and Suz Slezak are the husband-and-wife duo fronting the Mexo-Americana troupe David Wax Museum. Recorded in the couple’s...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Cantigas
On Cantigas Nilza Costa takes a direct approach to music that is often exoticised or treated as ornament. Born in...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2026
Her By Design
Glasgow-based Butterworth’s highly anticipated solo debut, Her By Design, delivers a timely, stirring and superbly realised release that explores women’s...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2025
Áshira
Gamelan Salukat x Jan Kadereit
There’s something transcendental about this time-bending collaboration between Copenhagen-based composer Jan Kadereit and Balinese gamelan orchestra Salukat. For those unfamiliar...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2025
Exile Vibration
Kyab Yul-Sa is a collaboration between Lobsang Chonzor and French musicians Margaux Liénard (fiddle, bouzouki) and Julien Lahaye (percussion). The...
Reviewed by Thomas Williams in issue: November/2018
Ora Doci Ora Margos
Who is Elida Almeida? Across 2015, many other music lovers will ask the same question. That is because this, the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2015
El Boom Boom
Now here’s a turn up for the books. The indefatigable Tumi Records of Bath has stumbled across a compilation containing...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010
