Reviews
Oide Oide
Brain Damage x Emiko Ota x Mad Professor
Every track of this ’post dub’ album brings a smile to my face, even on repeated listenings! It is a...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
The Warmth You Deserve
Stranded Horse with Boubacar Cissokho
Stranded Horse – real name Yann Tambour – is a French musical adventurer whose journey has taken him from the...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Live in Berlin
Conceived during the 2011 Syrian uprising, and recorded in concert ten years later in Berlin, this set of pieces by...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Marwar Stories
Thanks to Lorca’s duende theory – which has scant foundation in Andalusian history or culture – we tend to think...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Adventures in the Now
This is the fourth instalment of genre crossing ethno-jazz fusion from Finnish multi-instrumentalist Ilkka Arola and his band Sound Tagine....
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Douce Errance
Now resident in France, where he is best known as a film and TV actor, the Japanese-born Kengo Saito is...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Lagon Nwar
Together with Valentin Ceccaldi (bass, cello) and Quentin Biardeau (saxophone), both musical improvisers, composers and producers, and Marcel Balboné (Burkinabé...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Hyldon JID023
Younge’s output is so prolific that it must be difficult to maintain the quality, especially when he plays virtually all...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
Bhangra Rangeela
Red Baraat, the Brooklyn-based South Asian brass band with a list of great albums over the years, hardly need any...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
The Wind
German Jazz vocalist and composer Simin Tander explores a plethora of folkloric traditions – in particular those of Spain, Italy,...
Reviewed in issue June/2025
