Reviews
Asteartea
Bea Asurmendi is a London-based Basque singer-songwriter and Guildhall graduate with a sensitive, wide-ranging voice. This album was informed by...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2025
Cinnamon Flower
For over a decade, Charlie Rouse’s tenor sax graced Thelonious Monk’s quartet during the final chapter of the pianist’s career....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025
Your Comfort Zone
Cumbia grooves, salsa horn riffs and calls to rebellion coalesce on this bombastic record. Opener ‘You are the Revolution’ could...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2025
Hillbilly Ragas
The John Fahey-coined term “American primitive guitar” has become murky of late, with some guitarists disregarding it completely due to...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2025
The End
“The sound of the album is supposed to take the organic instruments of Irish traditional music and lift them somewhere...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2025
MUTANT
MUTANT is the perfect name for this shape-shifting album of bulbous beats by Moroccan producer Guedra Guedra (Abdellah M. Hassak)....
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: October/2025
Sasquatch Landslide
The Dwarfs of East Agouza | The Dwarfs Of East Agouza
The Dwarfs Of East Agouza are an established and prolific group. Egyptian musician Maurice Louca may be the most familiar...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025
The Heart Whispers and Whirls (Excerpts)
Melbourne’s The Resonant Heart is a collective of CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) and BIPOC women and female-identifying artists. This...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: October/2025
El Quinto Cardón
Supergroup Los Cinco Cardones met playing music in Los Cabos, the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula – a...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: October/2025
