Reviews
Quesaco?
Paris Combo are an iconic Parisian band, carried by the voice and the twinkling presence of Bénédicte Grimault, aka Belle...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: August/September/2022
Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors
Hearing Meïkhâneh’s album, Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside), is akin to waking up...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Here and There
Since its (then) undiscovered flowering in the 1970s, Ethio-jazz has spread around the musical world like an exotic plant. Before...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022
Oghneya
Berlin-based Arabic-retro label Habibi Funk have given the kiss of life to another lost legend in the form of 1978’s...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: August/September/2022
Footwork
The debut album from English fiddler Lewis Wood is something of a concept album – and it’s a nice concept. Footwork...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: August/September/2022
Mireya
From Puerto Rico, born to a Dominican mum and Mexican dad, Mireya is singer and founder of NYC-based all-women mariachi...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: August/September/2022
Live at WOMAD 1982
Can it really be 40 years since the first WOMAD took place at the Royal Bath and West Showground in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022
Kudu Bisa Kudu
The French drummer Guigou Chenevier was a founder member of the prog-punk-jazz pioneers Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973. Here he...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: August/September/2022
Intercontinental
Brian Molley Quartet with special guest Krishna Kishor
Jazz musicians from Scotland can claim to be the UK’s most exciting exponents on the scene. Saxophonist Brian Molley is...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/September/2022
