Reviews
Fin'amor
In Fin'amor, Lamia Bedioui and Solis Barki are conduits for a great many musical styles, traversing both time and place....
Reviewed by Shukri Habib Ali in issue: March/2020
Suburban Exotica
Suburban Exotica is the new album from the ‘Belgian-new-wave’ jazz collective Compro Oro. The group display a myriad of influences...
Reviewed by Marek Tymków in issue: March/2020
Gold Has Worn Away
Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess
Benji Kirkpatrick is a founder member of big-band folk trailblazers Bellowhead and a current member of Faustus, but he is...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2020
The Trance of Seven Colors
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders
The mystical Sufi music of the Moroccan Gnawa people has long been a source of fascination for jazz musicians attracted...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2020
Hed
The seventh-born of the well-known Kreiz Breizh Akademi musical laboratory from Brittany, this collective is based on the famous tradition...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: March/2020
Somos
Behind mestizo musics often lie unique stories. In the case of the three Villalobos brothers, it's a tale for our...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
Catastrophic Life
“The Marx Brothers on acid; the nightmare of Benjamin Netanyahu; freaks; millionaires on a mission impossible; a great story,” this...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2020
Cold Light
The Bideford-based folk duo's last album celebrated Devonian postman poet Edward Capern, but with Cold Light the two fiddle players,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2020
Op 2
Stanislav Yudin & Asnate Rancane
Op 1 doesn't seem to exist, as an album anyway. But if Op 2 is anything to go by then...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2020
Vivencias en Clave Cubana
Kiki Valera is a fantastic cuatro (double-coursed, steel-strung guitar, much like a tres but with one extra string) player. Valera,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2020
