Reviews
Dunrobin Place
It's hard not to sound like a broken record when talking about the albums of today's technically gifted, highly adept...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: March/2013
Kalo-Yele
Aly Keïta, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli
A trio built around the sound of the balafon (West African xylophone), bass clarinet and percussion sounds like a promising...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2016
The High Note Mento Collection
Mento was the first Jamaican popular music, a mix of calypso and local rhythms that won popularity across the island...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2021
Funeral for Justice
Forget desert blues. Mdou Moctar insist they are a rock band, influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen as much...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Silk Baroque
This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Real World 25
Real World began life in 1989 with Passion, the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ, scored...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Importance of Being Espetacular
Thiago França Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do França
The avant-garde saxophonist, samba revivalist and Metá Metá co-founder Thiago França has been running the Carnaval charanga band A Espetacular...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: November/2021
Kaleidophonica
There comes a point when every serious folk musician has to ask what their music's for. They are not the...
Reviewed by Andy Letcher in issue: March/2012
Gobi Desert
Stretching across an expanse of terrain joining Central Asia to northern China, the Gobi Desert is the location of several...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2019
Project Masnavi
Closely following their acclaimed albums Nim Dong (2018) and Afternoon Tea at Six (2020), Sydney-based Persian-jazz group Eishan Ensemble reconfigure...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2021
