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Review of Turn O Spinning Wheel

Turn O Spinning Wheel

Mishra & Deepa Shakthi

Shedbuilt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Sheffield’s storied musical pedigree is further burnished by Mishra, a folk collective supplying a beguiling ‘Indo-fusion’. The group deftly bring...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Pita Parka Pt. II: Nim Egduf

Pita Parka Pt. II: Nim Egduf

Dun-Dun Band

We Are Busy Bodies

Rating: ★★★★

Formed in 2016, Dun-Dun Band are a sprawling 10-piece ensemble from Toronto with members recruited from various jazz-adjacent groups and...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Across The Sea

Across The Sea

Anmol Mohara

Lomna Records

Rating: ★★★

Anmol Mohara’s music certainly doesn’t lack ambition. The UK-based Nepali percussionist, composer and lyricist packs in a surfeit of ideas...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of There Is Beauty, There Already

There Is Beauty, There Already

Sarathy Korwar

Top of the World

Otherland

Rating: ★★★★

Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album is a singular experiment in slow listening and percussive potential. It emerges alongside...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Edge of Blue

Edge of Blue

Da Lata

Da Lata Music

Rating: ★★★

Released in 2000, producer Chris Franck and jazz-dance and soul DJ Patrick Forge’s debut album as Da Lata, Songs from...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Soon In Your Village

Soon In Your Village

The Balkan Voodoo Orchestra

Asphalt Tango

Rating: ★★★★

The Balkan Voodoo Orchestra has unleashed this year’s primary global fusion spinner, with all disparate elements intact, shaven down to...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Saha Gnawa

Saha Gnawa

Saha Gnawa

Top of the World

Pique-nique Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

Collaborations between jazz musicians and members of the Afro-Moroccan Gnawa community are nothing new, though they rarely seem to live...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Fly Higher

Fly Higher

Soothsayers

Wah Wah 45s

Rating: ★★★★

Fly Higher drops shortly after genre-crossing fusionists Soothsayers celebrate 25 years together – and what a way to celebrate! The...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Dakan

Dakan

Orchestra Gold

Top of the World

Orchestra Gold

Rating: ★★★★

As opening statements go, you can’t get much more gloriously emphatic than ‘Diyanye Ko’ which kicks off the fourth album...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of 2

2

Yalla Miku

Les Disques Bongo Joe

Rating: ★★

Yalla Miku, the brainchild of Beirut-born Bongo Joe founder Cyril Yeterian, is a group which brings musicians from North and...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

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