Reviews
Intercontinental
Brian Molley Quartet with special guest Krishna Kishor
Jazz musicians from Scotland can claim to be the UK’s most exciting exponents on the scene. Saxophonist Brian Molley is...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Prize Fighter
Odia are an international trio who recorded this, their debut album, without actually meeting in person. Founder member Stuart Spence...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Together in Love and Separation
Chandra Chakraborty & Saskia Griffiths-Moore
Indian classical singer Chandra Chakraborty is joined by London-based singer Saskia Griffiths-Moore in an album that explore themes of love...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Many Faces
The cover of this sophomore album by London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur sums up its questing, fizzing, all-for-one spirit. Here, inside...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Banjophonics
With tune titles including ‘Daisy’s Dance’ and ‘Happy Little Phoebe’ (Daisy and Phoebe being the names of Damien O’Kane’s two...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Mỹ Lai
Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Rinde Eckert
The Apocalypse Now image on the album cover and the title Mỹ Lai, the name of a terrible massacre of...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
White Power Outage Vol 2
The revolution will not be televised, nor will it be terribly organised if the Free Radicals are in charge. Active...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
KG Westman & Zaعfaran
This unlikely mash-up of music and musicians from India, Egypt and Sweden is, perhaps against the odds, a resounding success....
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Recalibrate
From the first beats of ‘I Wanna Talk to You’, the opening track of Eccodek’s fifth studio album Recalibrate, you...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Avalanche Kaito
When the first track opens with ominous flat thrums of a bass guitar that make way for dissonant synth tones,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
