Reviews
Filament
In 2010, an American clarinettist began to compose original semi-classical Indian pieces for the clarinet. Under the tutelage of the...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Havana-Paris-Dakar
Alune Wade & Harold López-Nussa
The Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa and the Senegalese singer and bass player Alune Wade came together in Havana in late...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
The Sorcerers
The Sorcerers’ self-titled debut takes its influence from the father of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatké, across eight expansive tracks. The Leeds-based...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Continuum
For their seventh album, Singapore-based art-rockers The Observatory, most of whom are graduates of various 90s bands, have combined guitars,...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Zik’r East/Zik’r West
Born in Morocco to Jewish parents and raised in Paris, Ruimy spent seven years as a banker and financier before...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Nyanza
This is the third album from this Kenya-London collaboration and it's the most satisfying and varied set they’ve created yet....
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Resistance
The hard-hitting sextet from Ottawa struts its stuff again. It may be the band's first all-vocal album and there may...
Reviewed in issue November/2015
Invocación
Some aficionados of Latin American music can listen to the swaying rhythms of salsa or the rippling beats of son...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
