Reviews
Hope in an Empty City
Recorded in New York before the onset of COVID-19, this latest album by Egyptian/Australian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros is a...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Le Notti di San Patrizio
An Italian-based singer-songwriter born in Salvador, Bahia, Nilza Costa and her powerful, emotionally-charged voice represent a place at the cultural...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Vignettes
Vignettes is a series of small windows into the life, history and identity of its creator, London-based sitar player and...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Godless Ceremony
Islandman supplies slick multi-layered atmospheric down-tempo electronica with an ethno touch. Featuring musicians from all over the globe, the title...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Sounds of Sudan
Bristol-based oud players Ali Elmubarak and Knud Stüwe came together as Nabra in 2015 to explore a shared love of...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Ghost Owl
Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow
It's boom time for bird-themed music. Folksinger Sam Lee has his nightingales project; composer Cosmo Sheldrake's Wake Up Calls samples...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Unbounded (Abaad)
Inspired by Hindustani classical lineage and by John McLaughlin's fusions with Shakti alike, the 45-year old Indian sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
On Our Own Clock
What with the London-based 16-piece Balimaya Project and a host of other new collectives finding strength in numbers, a happy...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Still Moving
Adams has long been a bold and adventurous serial collaborator but this album with Mauro Durante – leader of Italy's...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
