Reviews
Bottle
Bottle opens right up in your face, with the scrub-board electric guitar of Tim Eriksen fighting it out with Eliza...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Disco at the Tavern
Celebrating 15 years of East Anglian hell-raising, this is a barnstorming set of tracks that deliver the trademark mix of...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Taranta Project
From the suspenseful orchestral arrangement and accordion drone that opens this diverse, deeply engaging album, it's obvious that this Turin-born...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
At Home: Live in Marciac
Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca
Recorded live at the Jazz in Marciac festival in south-west France, At Home is a meeting of both minds and...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Branches of the Same Tree
Ghanaian-born reggae singer and humanitarian activist Rocky Dawuni has released a collection of uplifting ballads inspired by his travels through...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
The Girl I Left Behind Me
The hypnotic melodies, syncopated rhythms and pop hooks of this debut album from Devon folk duo Cole Stacey and Joseph...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
La Yave de mi Kaza
The album's title means ‘The Key to my Home’ in the Ladino language of the Jews that were expelled from...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Rhythms of the Atlantic
Kadialy Kouyaté & Leonard Jacome
The premise of this album may seem a little familiar: a cross-cultural harp collaboration between Senegalese kora maestro Kadialy Kouyaté...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
The Fourth Light
Built around the captivating voice of the Iranian-born singer Azam Ali, the fusion of Sufi mysticism and electronic trance beats...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
