Reviews
Traveling East
What makes Dutch guitarist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk’s latest and sixth solo album, Traveling East, stand out is its fascinating fusion...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
La Pluma
It’s almost impossible to categorise La Pluma other than to suggest it’s sure to appeal to those who don’t like...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
The Orchestra in the Sky
Hochzeitskapelle & Japanese Friends
Hochzeitskapelle are a German instrumental quintet comprised of musicians from the Munich Jazz scene, who have garnered a reputation for...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
There Must Be Another Way
Packing a punch with their post-pandemic offering, Manchester-based Agbeko’s There Must Be Another Way is a musical declaration of their...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
The Sky Unfurls, The Dance Goes On
Led by Brazilian-born, Italian/English-raised songwriter and singer Lau Ro, Wax Machine’s third album, The Sky Unfurls, The Dance Goes On,...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Imershón
Vernon Chatlein is a composer, theatre maker and musician from Curaçao, an island in the region of the Caribbean that...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Black Attack
40 years since Mutabaruka’s first studio album, and 14 years since his last, this new release from the Jamaican dub...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Sule Skerry
The thought of a duo comprising nothing more than fiddle and mandolin made me doubtful. Surely these instruments have a...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
So Far We Have Come
Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary
English multi-instrumentalist Elliott teams up with Egyptian oud player Elazhary on this absorbing and beautiful set combining the folk cultures...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
Beehive
Now here’s a real oddity. Jono Heyes is a New Zealander who apparently lives in a gypsy wagon on the...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2024
