Reviews
Talende Strenger/Kertovat Kielet
Ragnhild Knudsen & Pauliina Syrjälä
Look no further than this Norwegian/Finnish collaboration for a textbook example of how musicians and producers should convey their music...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2024
Ode Dite
This is a curious release from Croatian guitarist and singer-songwriter Adam Semijalac. He’s deliberately put his guitar away and picked...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2024
Imershón
Vernon Chatlein is a composer, theatre maker and musician from Curaçao, an island in the region of the Caribbean that...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/February/2024
Black Attack
40 years since Mutabaruka’s first studio album, and 14 years since his last, this new release from the Jamaican dub...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: January/February/2024
Sule Skerry
The thought of a duo comprising nothing more than fiddle and mandolin made me doubtful. Surely these instruments have a...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/February/2024
A Flor de Piel
The contribution and influence of Colombians and a new generation of Anglo-Colombians to the development of Latin music in the...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: January/February/2024
Addis
Born in Addis Ababa in 1970 and growing up in Sweden, Lemma has been making music since his teens but...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024
Solar: Sun Ra in Brasil (Red Hot + Ra)
One of the most enigmatic figures in jazz, whose musical legacy and Afrofuturistic mythology stretched way beyond genre limits, this...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: January/February/2024
When We Fly
Hartwin Dhoore and his younger brother, Ward, are a duo from Rodeland in Belgium. They take their name, Siger, from...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/February/2024
So Far We Have Come
Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary
English multi-instrumentalist Elliott teams up with Egyptian oud player Elazhary on this absorbing and beautiful set combining the folk cultures...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2024
