Reviews

The Road Never Travelled

Tzimmes

Tzimmes translates in Yiddish a ‘big fuss.’ It’s also an Eastern European Jewish dish: a sweet, honeyed mix of root...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Night + Day

Opium Moon

With their debut album winning a Grammy for Best New Age Album back in 2019, the sophomore release from this...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Laroyê

Àbáse

This debut album by Hungarian producer and multi-instrumentalist Szabolcs Bognár (aka Àbáse) is exactly what its title means in the...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Sa

Parvyn

Australian Punjabi singer Parvyn grew up among Sikh devotional music and trained in Hindustani classical music and dance. She began...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Late Night Tales Presents Version Excursion Selected by Don Letts

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The filmmaker and broadcaster Don Letts first found fame as the ‘Rebel Dread’ DJ who introduced punks to reggae at...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Natura Sonora

El Búho

Though British, Robin Perkins emerged out of the Latin American downtempo scene of the early 2010s under the alias of...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Project Masnavi

Eishan Ensemble

Closely following their acclaimed albums Nim Dong (2018) and Afternoon Tea at Six (2020), Sydney-based Persian-jazz group Eishan Ensemble reconfigure...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Lumba

Tamala

The acoustic trio Tamala’s second album harvests a generous crop of 13 long songs, featuring Mola Sylla and Bao Sissoko...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Reclaim

Mishra

Home-recorded entirely live-in-the-room, in a farmhouse in Gloucestershire, Mishra’s new album sets out its stall via an eclectic musical fusion...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Olin Ennen

Barbora Xu

On her debut recording, Olin Ennen (which translates in Finnish to ‘I Was’), Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Barbora Xu explores...

Reviewed in issue December/2021