Reviews
Bone Reader
Washington DC isn't an obvious place to look for Afrobeat. Yet in the land of suits and carpeted corridors, Chopteeth...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Escapology
As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Echo in the Valley
Although they've been married since 2009, Béla Fleck, the world's premier banjo player, and clawhammer banjo player and singer Abigail...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Wiejski Dżez
The Malisz family hail from Męcina Mała, a small village in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains near the Slovakian...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
The Rough Guide to Acoustic India
Every track on this CD deserves to be played on repeat until they are all etched, beat for beat, into...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Three Letters from Sarajevo
In a career spanning more than three decades, Goran Bregović has gone from Yugoslavian rock star to populariser of brassy...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Singing Ways to Feel More Junior
Since finding his solo mojo with What's Here What's Gone, praised in these very pages for repurposing the kind of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
