Reviews

Live at Another Sky Festival

AMMAR 808

Recorded live at London’s Café Oto during their Another Sky Festival in September 2023, this is a hypnotic and exhilarating...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Rammana

Salin

I first heard about Salin from Haitian jazz artists in Montréal who told me she was the best drummer in...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

État Coupable

Use Knife

The latest release from Iraqi-Belgian outfit Use Knife, sees Saif Al-Qaissy, Stef Hereen and Kwinten Mordijk plunging deeper into their...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Oide Oide

Brain Damage x Emiko Ota x Mad Professor

Every track of this ’post dub’ album brings a smile to my face, even on repeated listenings! It is a...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

The Warmth You Deserve

Stranded Horse with Boubacar Cissokho

Stranded Horse – real name Yann Tambour – is a French musical adventurer whose journey has taken him from the...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Live in Berlin

Kinan Azmeh & CityBand

Conceived during the 2011 Syrian uprising, and recorded in concert ten years later in Berlin, this set of pieces by...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Marwar Stories

Jackson Scott Walter

Thanks to Lorca’s duende theory – which has scant foundation in Andalusian history or culture – we tend to think...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Adventures in the Now

Ilkka Arola Sound Tagine

This is the fourth instalment of genre crossing ethno-jazz fusion from Finnish multi-instrumentalist Ilkka Arola and his band Sound Tagine....

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Douce Errance

Kengo Saito

Now resident in France, where he is best known as a film and TV actor, the Japanese-born Kengo Saito is...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Lagon Nwar

LAGON NWAR

Together with Valentin Ceccaldi (bass, cello) and Quentin Biardeau (saxophone), both musical improvisers, composers and producers, and Marcel Balboné (Burkinabé...

Reviewed in issue June/2025