Reviews
Another Place
When Pachyman (Pachy García) left San Juan for Los Angeles back in the day, he carried a love of dub...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2025
Bayou Moonlight
Jeffery Broussard & The Nighttime Syndicate
From the second that Bayou Moonlight’s opening track, ‘Whatever’, hits you, it’s readily apparent that you’re in for a wild,...
Reviewed by Andrew Daly in issue: July/2025
The Lone Wild Bird
Will Holshouser is an accordion player enjoying an eclectic career in New York, playing with, for instance, New York City...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2025
Roots in Motion
Oud master Mehmet Polat’s seventh record fizzes with energetic, odd-time compositions. He develops a cross-cultural conversation that Dave Brubeck picked...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2025
Club Tounsi
It’s only been a few weeks since the release of his last album, the excellent Live at Another Sky Festival,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2025
Ma Gitala
It’s been a while since we last had a record from our favourite Malawian busking duo, but Madalitso Band are...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2025
Dancing the Line
Ultan O’Brien is a fiddler and composer hailing from County Clare in West Ireland with an interest in both the...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton 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 by Nigel Williamson 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 by Tom Newell 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 by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2025
