Reviews
Collaborations: Volume One
Ten years on from their inception, Hackney Colliery Band have embarked on an ambitious collaborative journey, with this record setting...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Weightless
Teotima's second album, released on eclectic label First Word Records, sees the group slim down to a ready-to-tour ensemble. Greg...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
H
Oud player Grégory Dargent is best known for his collaborations with Algerian singer Houria Aïchi and French pianist-singer Babx. He...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Half Day Road
Not for nothing is Liz Carroll routinely referred to as a fiddler-composer, because almost immediately after they're written, the Chicago-born...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Travesuras
Rock, electronica, Cuban rhythms, Middle Eastern music and Gregorian chant are among the passions of classically trained Spanish pianist Daniel...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Growing Upward
Rupa & the April Fishes are back after a long break. The San Francisco-based band led by singer-songwriter, doctor and...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
The Borametz Tree
There's a lot to enjoy under The Borametz Tree, a musical interzone from Cambridge guitarist C Joynes, encompassing desert blues...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
Songs That Made Us Free
With a predominantly South African cast among musicians from 17 other countries, this multicultural collection of freedom songs, old and...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
The Burial of Kojo
Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian American visual artist, MC and bandleader with a clutch of interesting, forward-looking albums under...
Reviewed in issue July/2019
