Reviews
Latin-Soul-Rock
Fifty years after its original release, this long out-of-print album has been remastered and reissued on vinyl and digital form....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2024
The Free Wild Wind & The Songs of Birds
Citing Norwegian chamber-prog band Meer and composer Bear McCreary as influences, The Crooked Fiddle Band’s new and lengthily-titled album comprises...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2024
Simple Pleasures
Pioneering banjo player, composer, and a key leading lady of bluegrass, Alison Brown wears many...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: October/2024
Kokoro
Tel Aviv-based quartet Sababa 5’s third full-length album in as many years is, in fact, a compilation of the A...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/September/2024
Araya Lam
The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band
Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band (PBMIB) has released its first studio album since 2016’s successful Planet Lam. The new album...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: August/September/2024
Out in La La Land
Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/September/2024
Erbil
The Syrian singer Omar Souleyman’s fifth studio album, Erbil, is filled with the celebration of life through music. Souleyman performs...
Reviewed by Thérèse Wassily Saba in issue: August/September/2024
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert
Bessie Jones, John Davis & the Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell & Ed Young
The immediate (and significant) feeling I got when I first started listening to this 1965 concert was one of privilege;...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: August/September/2024
Siniensigui
Hailing from Côte d’Ivoire and descended from Malian griots, Dembele has become a central figure in Britain’s West African diaspora,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2024
