Reviews
Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea (1974-88)
The fruit of an extensive archival project by Soundway Records label boss Alice Whittington (AKA DJ Norsicaa), Ayo Ke Disco...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2024
Music in the Realm of Fireflies: Improvisations for Peace and Healing
This is meditative music, created by a group of Japanese and Japan-based musicians playing Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Korean, and Mongolian...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue:
Creole Orchestra
Big band music in the 21st century can often feel quite dated, so it's refreshing to hear an album such...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: November/2024
Outside Time
The thrilling Tarren return with their second album (after 2022's Revel) with an equally stimulating take on traditional English folk...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2024
Canciones Que No Quieren Morir
This 21-track compilation focuses on the solo career of the erstwhile Argentine frontman for Los Gatos and composer of their...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2024
Guaracheros
This 1961 work was originally released on Peru's MAG label. Nelson Ferreyra's outfit gives Cuban guaracha, once particularly popular in...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2024
Spirits of Mauronoros
The ancient world and the turbulent present collide to great effect on this, the second LP from the Greek woodwind...
Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: November/2024
A Thousand Pokes
‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2024
Willie Watson
Since co-founding the much-acclaimed Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson has spent around a quarter of a century as an...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024
