Reviews
Journeys
Brian Molley Quartet & The Asin Langa Ensemble
This record deepens the engagement of Scottish saxophonist Molley with Indian music. On 2022’s Intercontinental, Molley’s focus was on Tamil...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Colliding Layers
When the phrase “library music” comes up, the image that comes to my mind is of dusty LPs with modernist...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
For the Olives
With For the Olives, New Orleans-based Trendafilka extends the legacy of Eastern European polyphonic singing into the 21st century. An...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Out Here on the Perimeter (1989–1996)
By 1989, where the Out Here on the Perimeter boxset begins, Jamaican drummer Lincoln ‘Style’ Scott was a fully committed...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Abundância
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of her career, Portuguese singer Maria João is releasing one of her boldest records to...
Reviewed in issue May/2025
Do You Remember?
Hailing from Germany, this amorphous cross-cultural jazz collective have been making waves on the Berlin underground with their infectious grooves,...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
B O D I E S
Berlin-based Australian singer-songwriter Kat Frankie leads an eight-member all-female a cappella vocal ensemble on this, the group’s debut self-titled album....
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Nest
By combining instruments from his native country of Latvia, such as the kolke (a harp/zither relative of Lithuania’s kankle and...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Orchestrations
Buttery has pursued a more eclectic approach to incorporating global styles into his guitar playing than his fellow South African...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Lion Awakes
For 23 years, Nigerian singer Amayo was the frontman for the acclaimed Afrobeat collective Antibalas. Having left the band in...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
