Reviews
Hyldon JID023
Younge’s output is so prolific that it must be difficult to maintain the quality, especially when he plays virtually all...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Bhangra Rangeela
Red Baraat, the Brooklyn-based South Asian brass band with a list of great albums over the years, hardly need any...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
The Wind
German Jazz vocalist and composer Simin Tander explores a plethora of folkloric traditions – in particular those of Spain, Italy,...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Inner Spaces
Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
The latest release from Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player and vocalist Amir ElSaffar and composer and sound artist Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch,...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
The Edinburgh Rollick
NYC-based Ruckus – described as “the world’s only period-instrument rock band” – have joined forces with violinist, composer and musicologist...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
At My Mother’s Piano
Can memory be preserved through sound? Can a place and a point in time be captured in the soft fall...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Mogador
Maâlem Soudani comes from a lineage of Gnawa Maâlems long associated with the Zaouia Sidna Boulal, up near the ramparts...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Breath / Ah / Aliento
In Breath, Persian singer Farnaz Ohadi makes the impossible seem easy, weaving two complex traditions, Persian classical music and Spanish...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Blŵgras
In terms of dazzling instrumental expertise, Taff Rapids can stand alongside the best bluegrass bands on the planet. With the...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Vaivaik
From Taiwan, Sauljaljui is one of the island’s strongest vocalists, hailing from the aboriginal Paiwan people. She performed an impressive...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
