Reviews
Postcards from Home
Kuljit Bhamra, Jacqueline Shave & John Parricelli
The paradoxical title of this album – postcards are surely sent to home not from it – suggests the nature...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Give
The New York-based trio are at it again. But this time things are different – the band have grown up...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Corner of the World
The music of Solus3 is a delicate tracery of ethereal harp, rarefied gamelan, modal jazz, minimalist electronica, systems music, old-style...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
If Paradise
The GUO must be one of the more ambitious and fluid big-bands in existence. Led by trombonist Tony Haynes, it...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
No Stranger Here
Shubha Mudgal, Ursula Rucker & the Business Class Refugees
Initially I found the very idea of this album a little off-putting. A selection of 16th century Indian poems by...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Arctic Spirit
Arctic Spirit is a beautifully produced CD (and booklet) of contemporary interpretations, improvisations and meditations on traditional Sakha (Yakut) cultural...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Diagnostic
Ibrahim Maalouf is one of those quiet, unsung achievers: an in-demand session musician whose clean, spare trumpet playing has sprinkled...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012
Life in a Day OST
Soundtracks are funny old things. When they feature alongside a film, they make sense – they’re doing precisely what they’re...
Reviewed in issue March/2012
The Unbroken Surface of Snow
Andrew Cronshaw released the beautiful Ochre back in 2005 [reviewed in #27]; seven years later comes The Unbroken Surface of...
Reviewed in issue March/2012
