Reviews
Wise and Waiting
Wise and Waiting is Bristol-based trombonist Raph Clarkson’s latest exploration into the vibrant sounds of South African jazz. Following recent...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: June/2024
My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall
Anyone who enjoyed the 2019 Smithsonian Folkways album Songs of Our Native Daughters is going to love My Black Country....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Los Lobos del Recuerdo
Lobos is one of those Buenos Aires province backwater towns where nothing much happens, ever. It may be an accidental...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2024
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
After the Morning
Wyndham Baird’s music lives at the intersection of witting imitation, authentic reinterpretation and inspired creation. He sings like his (mostly)...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
Trail of Flowers
Sierra Ferrell kicks off her latest album with ‘American Dreaming’, ‘one of several songs co-written with… frequent collaborator Melody Walker...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
We Have Waited Too Long
At the height of apartheid in 1983, Darius Brubeck, son of the legendary jazz giant Dave Brubeck and an accomplished...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
L’Bnat
Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou
The second album by Gnawa maalma Asmâa Hamzaoui and her all-female group Daughters of Timbuktu is a bass-lute thudding, qaraqab-clattering,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024
