Reviews
Brothers
Adam Baldych & Helge Lien Trio
Upon first listen, Brothers appears to be just another adventure in the frosty, folky sound-world of northern European jazz. The...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Journey of Joy
In the wake of the groundbreaking East-West duets between Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin, 50 years ago the sitar player...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Backroad Carnival
Cory Seznec first made waves as part of the quirky American roots group Groanbox Boys and has since cropped up...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Glasshouses
Keyboardist Lascelles was a founder member of the Global Village Trucking Company in the early 1970s, going on to become...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Seekers and Finders
What's left to say about Gypsy punk outfit Gogol Bordello? Not much on the strength of this, their seventh album....
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Ladilikan
This album is a sublime meeting of two superb chamber groups. On the one hand there is San Francisco's string...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
London Stories
Maciek Pysz (from Poland) and Gianluca Corona (from Italy) first played together in 2012, at an East London jam session....
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Tigre
Tigre, Banda Magda's third album (which is subtitled Stories of Courage and Fearlessness) is a polished affair, swathed in lush...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Ephemera
All four musicians of Lingua Franca are graduates of the Rotterdam Conservatoire (CODARTS) and two are now teachers there, specialising...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Ma De Re Sha
It would be easy to lump Rahul Mukerji's fusion guitar music in with the tradition of John McLaughlin, but nothing...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
