Reviews
Slow Music
On this album of gentle dinner jazz crooning, Joyce gathers together a selection of session musician stalwarts who include many...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2011
Acadian All Star Special
What a beautifully packaged project this is: a large box housing three CDs and a hardback book full of rare...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
Byin Arrivé
From La Réunion comes an action-packed album featuring eight young musicians, fronted by the punchy Creole vocals of lead singer...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: April/2026
Out Here on the Perimeter (1989–1996)
By 1989, where the Out Here on the Perimeter boxset begins, Jamaican drummer Lincoln ‘Style’ Scott was a fully committed...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2025
The River
The River is Napier's first solo album, and a rather intriguing and exciting one it is too. Napier is a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2016
The Bridge
Arash Moradi plays the tanbur – a saz-like long-necked lute that is played in Iranian Kurdistan. For many it is...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
The Promise
Turkish oud player Mehmet Polat further develops his style on this solo album with the help of others on traditional...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020
The Healing
BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) return with an album of ‘music for the people, by the people, with the people.’...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2019
The Art of the Ajaeng Sanjo
The Yueshu, a 12th-century Chinese encyclopedia of music, refers to the Chinese ajaeng as being a zither that ‘creaks’. The...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2013
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
