Reviews
Mirante
Inspired by his visits to Brazil, Canadian composer and instrumentalist Storring applies contemporary composition techniques to convey the impressions which...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2025
Colliding Layers
When the phrase “library music” comes up, the image that comes to my mind is of dusty LPs with modernist...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2025
For the Olives
With For the Olives, New Orleans-based Trendafilka extends the legacy of Eastern European polyphonic singing into the 21st century. An...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2025
Saboreando – Pot Full of Soul
The 107th Street Stickball Team
This pick-up outfit featured in Vampisoul’s marvellous retrospective of producer Bobby Marín’s work, We’ve Got a Groovy Thing Going [reviewed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2025
Out Here on the Perimeter (1989–1996)
By 1989, where the Out Here on the Perimeter boxset begins, Jamaican drummer Lincoln ‘Style’ Scott was a fully committed...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2025
Abundância
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of her career, Portuguese singer Maria João is releasing one of her boldest records to...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2025
Arcadia
A remarkable trait of Alison Krauss & Union Station is the consistently sublime nature of the band’s output. It’s been...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2025
7 Portais
Bergamini may come from an academic background but he has played percussion alongside a wide range of Brazilian artists, from...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2025
Ekoya
After three albums of uncompromising Congolese street funk, Jupiter Bokondji and his band have essayed something a little different on...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
Do You Remember?
Hailing from Germany, this amorphous cross-cultural jazz collective have been making waves on the Berlin underground with their infectious grooves,...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: April/2025
