Reviews
The Archive
Bob Dylan’s 1985 box set Biograph came with an interview in which Dylan said: “Some guys got it down –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2025
Perenne Pilar
Born in Barcelona, María Cielos spent ten years living abroad, seven of them in Rwanda, before she returned to the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2025
Wapna’kik: The People of the Dawn
The Mi’kmaw people have lived on the eastern coasts of Canada from New Brunswick to Newfoundland since time immemorial, fishing,...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2025
Ti Galé
Ti Galé is an album of exuberant solo accordion music by René Lacaille, venerable master of sega, the dance music...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2025
A Blade Because a Blade is Whole
Emerging from the UK’s experimental underground, DePlume’s Spotify statistics indicate that his concoction of poetry and jazz provides a taste...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2025
Archwilio’r Traddodiad: Exploring the Tradition
This debut from bassist Aidan Thorne and guitarist Jason Ball was recorded live at Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown on...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2025
Eclairer le Monde (Light the World)
It starts with a furious flurry of percussion, and then in comes that voice, as commanding, passionate and distinctive as...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2025
Vivo en Santo Domingo
Dominican musician Toné Vicioso has roots in bebop and avant-garde music, nurtured while resident in New York during the 70s....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2025
Chapter III: We Return to Light
We Return to Light is the conclusion of a triptych of instrumental mini-albums that has seen sitarist Anoushka Shankar explore...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2025
