Reviews
Club Tounsi
It’s only been a few weeks since the release of his last album, the excellent Live at Another Sky Festival,...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Album No. 1
Les Abranis were founded in the late 1960s by singer Karim Abdenour and organ player Shamy El Vaz, two young...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Furie
Something of an anomaly in this magazine but also on the pop scene, Anglo-Austrian singer Alicia Edelweiss is one of...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Laini Tan
More than seven years after her debut, the second solo album from Egyptian-born, Montréal-based Nadah El Shazly brings all the...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Wild Green
This London-based group have blended their atypical instrumentation of clarinet, percussion, violin and cello to engaging effect on two previous...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Ylh Bye Bye
A taut tension between tradition and the wide-open possibilities of the future underpins Ylh Bye Bye, the debut album by...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Fontana Rosa
Multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis returns with an all-star Celtic/Latin line-up featuring Venezuelan percussionist Baldo Verdú, American drummer Shawn Lee, the Isle...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Alhambra by Night
Alhambra by Night is the second outing for a musical collaboration between Dutch flamenco guitarist, Jacco Muller, and American oud...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Etienne de la Sayette & The Wild Horses Orchestra
Etienne de la Sayette & The Wild Horses Orchestra
Yes, this music reeks of Parisian boulevards, with its playful accordion, singing flutes and vamping piano, but it also finds...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Kokuu
Last year, the prolific Finnish pianist Timo Alakotila and Japanese accordion player Yuka Fujino released Seiras, which they followed with...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
