Reviews

Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The project Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony consists of a double album and book. Several electronic artists were commissioned to create...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Voltaje Raizal

Rizomagic

A rhizome is an underground plant stem; recent scientific investigation has shown it to be a secret communications pathway for...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Kutumba

AO Music

One wonders if in recent times there has been such a truly global release as Kutumba  – meaning ‘family’ in...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Chants

Al-jiçç

A Portuguese band playing Middle Eastern music while paying homage to American jazz: with a premise like this, it’s either...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Yn Rio

Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18

Welsh-Brazilian samba might seem an unlikely musical match; even less so with the addition of the BBC National Orchestra of...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Via de la Plata

Daniel García Trio

Playing an album by a Spanish pianist on ACT Music, you might immediately expect to hear some variety of flamenco...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Shapes in Twilights of Infinity

ESINAM

ESINAM is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist who creates cosmic soundscapes by fusing intricate rhythms, silvery flute, ethereal vocals, African percussion, spoken...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Asimétrico

El Remolón

It’s a pity the name ‘trance’ has already been taken for a music genre, as it is the perfect descriptor...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

The Empress

The McDades

Siblings Shannon, Solon and Jeremiah McDade have been steeped in folk music from childhood, playing in a family band with...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Songs Inspired by the Film The Beatles and India

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Here are two discs to accompany the new documentary film on the highly influential period when The Beatles visited India...

Reviewed in issue December/2021