Reviews

Jinn

Jinn

While it would be easy to make an album focusing on the similarities between guitar and oud, this debut album...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2022

Rosc

Goitse

Celebrating 15 years together and a decade on the touring circuit, Limerick-based quintet Goitse mark the dual anniversary in style...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2022

And So We Gather

Kim Carnie

Kim Carnie wrote most of this debut album in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, and she has captured the unhurried peacefulness of...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: October/2022

Bondona

Khiyo

On the strength of their 2015 debut album Khiyo were nominees in the best group category at the Songlines Music...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2022

Racines

Joulik

With Racines the French trio Joulik range around the globe. ‘Gwannaw Ay’ includes Wolof proverbs, ‘Dans Mon Ker’ is in...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2022

Mahal

Irfan Ali Taj

Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/September/2022

In Search of Sources

Jarek Adamów & Marcin Kozak

Unlike the Jarek Adamów album that follows this one, In Search of Sources features two Polish musicians interested in the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022

The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA

Don Ellis

This live record is a charming time capsule, taking us back to the swinging 60s and the first fumblings of...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/September/2022

Cross the Rolling Water

Hannah Read & Michael Starkey

Fiddler and singer-songwriter Hannah Read met banjo player Michael Starkey at an Appalachian music session in Edinburgh in 2019. They...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022

Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand

Kantrum Dongman

Kantrum boran, the traditional music of Northern Khmer people, is found in the lower north-eastern Thai provinces of Surin, Sri...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: August/September/2022