Reviews
War Stories
Lancashire-based Harp and a Monkey call themselves ‘electro-folk-storytellers’ and their songs resonate with a strong sense of history coupled with...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Far From Home
From the opening, jump-up moments of ‘Abatina’, a crisp, smart updating of a famous traditional rhythm, ‘Kalenda March’, it is...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
We be All Africans
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
African-American jazz musicians were undoubtedly the pioneers of what's become known as world music. In the 1950s, Dizzy Gillespie's music...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2016
Revolve and Rotate
Luke Daniels’ last album What's Here, What's Gone found him evolving from a well-respected button accordion virtuoso to a more-than-respectable...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Hello, Goodbye
Celebrating 25 years as a professional musician, multi-instrumentalist John McCusker teams up with a cast of musician friends who have...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2016
Wanga
Throes + The Shine's fiery electronic reconfigurations of kuduro – the popular Angolan dance music of the 1980s – are...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2016
Sobre Crianças, Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa…
Though Criolo has stolen the limelight as the voice of those living on Brazil's periphery, Emicida's career has followed a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016
Sunshine Seas
The prolific conservatory-trained musical polymath from Queens, New York is back with another new project. Quite apart from countless sessions...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2016
Poor Strange Girl
A singer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer from Ripponden in West Yorkshire, Alice Jones has been around folk music since she was...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Vintage K-Pop Revisited
A French quintet offering modern jazz-influenced instrumental covers of the songs of a Korean crooner? Even the theoretical infinite monkeys...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2016
