Reviews
Flash de Mémoire
The concept of marrying traditional songs with heavy electronic dance music is a curious one, conjuring notions of the Pet...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2022
Saraba Sufiyana
Rafiki Jazz, the global band who bring together all manner of musicians so to demonstrate that music knows no borders,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Líquido
Opening with ‘Triunfal’, a typically lyrical, mood-swinging Astor Piazzolla number, this UK-based quintet set out the stall of their second...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
Aloha Radio Hawaii
A Chinese label recording vintage Hawaiian music in an ultra-modern California studio, with mostly non-native musicians? Go figure. But despite...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
Cocktail d’Amour
Every couple of years there surfaces a new and often surprising instance of Robert Crumb’s enduring forays into amateur music-making....
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Bending the Dark
Here is music that illustrates how all culture begins as an idea in the human mind. The third Imagined Village...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012
Cut it Down, Count the Rings
Copper Viper's PR describes them as ‘an acoustic folk group from London,’ which isn't wrong but you could certainly be...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019
The Vienna Tapes
In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
