Reviews
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
Śaranam
This is the third album from the Sydney-based trio. Śaranam means ‘to take refuge’ in Sanskrit and this is an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: January/February/2024
A.O.E.I.U (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Florence Adooni is a singer born to the Frafra people of northeast Ghana. She grew up performing in church choirs...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025
Making Moves
Although it’s only five years after their debut album, this slow coach follow-up still makes the Santrofi eight-piece sound like...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2025
Indumiso YabeNguni
Ntuthuko Ndebele – aka Mthuthu – began setting his lyrics to house music in collaboration with various South African DJs...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
High Horse
If beautiful, genre-melding compositions that blur the lines between bluegrass, roots, jazz and chamber music performed by a group of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025
Shadows of Perception
Currently based in Australia, Aracan originally hail from Colombia. Guitarist and producer Carlos Arango previously played with a 15-piece cumbia...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2025
Vive L’Amour
Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble are an unusual and intriguing project that started back in 2009 when Finnish guitarist Janne Halonen travelled to...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2025
