Reviews
Queen of the Whirl
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution
‘I've given blow jobs on couches to men who don't want me anymore’ – that first line of Eliza Carthy's...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2022
Jigdoll
The album begins with a soft low hum, then lyrical vocal layers build up, like cumulus clouds across a twilight...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana
Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares
The ringing guitar and tres duets between Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo, first heard on 1986's Chanchaneando, went on to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
The Liberty to Choose
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, compiled by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd, was published in 1959....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Love in Exile
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
This extraordinary collaboration can broadly be described as Sufi electronica, but it transcends musical genres. Arooj Aftab is a grammy-award...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2023
Beyond the Grid
Led by the jazz saxophonist Guillaume Van Parys, Afrikän Protoköl brings together Belgian jazzers and traditional musicians from Burkina Faso...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Bird Like Men
The debut album from this new Aotearoa (New Zealand) quartet brings together four distinctive Kiwi artists: female Māori singer-musicians and...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022
Bottle
Bottle opens right up in your face, with the scrub-board electric guitar of Tim Eriksen fighting it out with Eliza...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2015
Awaken
Their name is certainly as playful as the music: a blend of distinctly old-school Parisian swing and Gypsy jazz with...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2019
