Reviews
Namaz
Some musical fusions languish in the superficial, achieving little more than a novel combination of disparate sounds, while others operate...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2018
Shimmering Lights: Hanukkah Songs
Shimmering Lights: is one of those albums that really takes you by surprise. Seeing Hanukkah Songs in the title, as...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: December/2018
Parasol Peak
Since popularising the hang drum – a melodic percussion instrument, and cousin to the steel pan – at the turn...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2018
Against All Tides
Lyrically engaging, harmonically alluring and instrumentally honed to a crystalline sharpness, Harpeth Rising ascend to the upper echelon of the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2018
Kamale Blues
That Harouna Samaké has been Salif Keita's kamalengoni player for the past 17 years tells you all you need to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018
Neath the Gloaming Star
West Lothian singer Hannah Rarity had already toured with Irish-American band Cherish the Ladies when she won the BBC Radio...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018
Laws of Motion
Karine Polwart with Steven Polwart & Inge Thomson
Following hot on the heels of A Pocket of Wind Resistance, Polwart's album to accompany her Wind Resistance theatre project,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2018
Förgänglighet
Åkervinda are a Swedish and Danish quartet of accomplished female vocalists. Trained in jazz, the group also have a deep...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: December/2018
Long Shot/Battle of the Giants
The Pioneers were a Jamaican vocal trio who formed in the early 1960s, shifting line-ups and achieving little success until...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2018
