Reviews
Sol: A Series of Reflections
From the very first track, ‘Call’, it's clear that in Sol, Joshua Hyde intends to deal more in atmospheres than...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Silk Baroque
This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
White Night
The ‘white night’ of this album's title comes from an anonymous Japanese poem about a cuckoo that sings all the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Voices and Percussions
Brazilian percussionist, arranger and composer Silvano Michelino's project Boca de Tambor is a journey rich in timbres, rhythms and textures,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Safe in Sound
Safe in Sound is the fifth album in a long-established series of self-releases by the solo acoustic guitarist Daryl Shawn,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
More Arriving
Born in the US, raised and educated in India and a London resident for the past decade, the percussionist and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Africa Speaks
Half a century after Carlos Santana's career-defining performance at Woodstock placed the fusion of Latin rhythms and guitar rock on...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
I Was Real
This is the duo's third album, now featuring an expanded line-up with extra guitars and percussion, saxophones, viola, upright bass...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
It's Still Autumn
Kayhan Kalhor & the Rembrandt Frerichs Trio
The collaboration between Iranian kamancheh spike-fiddle master Kayhan Kalhor and the Dutch baroque-jazz ensemble Rembrandt Frerichs Trio has been a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
Kolida Babo
This is an intriguing experiment by two Greek exponents of the duduk, an Armenian oboe. Socratis Votskos and Harris P...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019
