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  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Review
    Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Dance — Romanian folk meets Brooklyn jazz

    Piano and viola intertwine across tracks drawing on traditional songs collected by Béla Bartók

    A bearded man in a dark suit plays the viola whilst seated next to a grand piano being played by another man who is also wearing a dark suit
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Review
    Benjamin Bernheim: Douce France — full-throated singing

    The French tenor brings fine clarity of enunciation to a set of 19th- and 20th-century ‘mélodies’

    A man with brown hair and wearing a navy jumper and jacket smiles and leans against a stone doorway
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Review
    Laurie Anderson: Amelia — restless visionary’s homage to a trailblazing aviator

    The US musician has created a mesmerising travelogue inspired by Amelia Earhart’s fateful last journey

    A short-haired woman in her seventies poses with her eyes closed and her face and shoulders bathed in blue and pink light
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Review
    Fontaines DC venture into surreal landscapes on Romance

    Inspired by Japanese manga, the Irish band’s fourth record is full of dreamy lyrics, apocalyptic imagery and woozy melodies

    Five young men pose broodily around a concrete staircase with graffiti scrawled on the wall
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Review
    Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Woodland — old-time stylings and modern moods

    The new ‘duo’ album from two of Americana’s leading lights offers wistful melodies, bittersweet emotions and sly humour

    A man and woman, both grey-haired and in their fifties, stand side-by-side in a sunny garden wearing cowboy hats and denim shirts. The man holds an acoustic guitar under his arm while she stares off into the distance.
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Review
    Bryce Dessner shows off his many shades in Solos

    The guitarist-composer’s pieces range from the expressive to the minimalist, featuring soloists such as Pekka Kuusisto and Colin Currie

    A man in a blue blazer and baseball cap plays an electric guitar in front of a vast screen displaying colourful visuals
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Review
    Buzz’ Ayaz — Nicosia band paints a musical portrait of a divided city

    Led by Antonis Antoniou, the group mix Cypriot glam with Anatolian riffs in an intoxicating self-titled record

    Four men with beards and wearing patterned shirts stand in front of closed shop fronts covered in graffiti
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Review
    Hamish Hawk: A Firmer Hand — evocative lyrics and erotic power games

    The Scottish singer-songwriter’s latest showcases his talent for stories of passion

    A man with short white-blond hair, wearing a dark olive shirt and brown blazer, stares ahead blankly against a black background
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Review
    Rosie Lowe: Lover, Other — audacious and sophisticated

    This is an auteur-like work by an exile from the record industry’s song factory

    A woman with slicked-back hair and a white collared shirt stares out with a serious expression in front of a peach wall
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Review
    Anna Clyne: Shorthand — moving music for string orchestra

    The composer unites starry guests including Yo-Yo Ma and Pekka Kuusisto with chamber ensemble The Knights

    A brown-haired woman wearing red glasses and a trenchcoat stands in front of a stone wall
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Review
    Wayne Shorter: Celebration, Volume 1 — five stars for a master bandleader

    This 2014 live recording captures a spellbinding performance from the inventive late saxophonist and his quartet

    Black and white photo of Wayne Shorter in his later years wearing a scarf, holding a saxophone and looking directly at the camera with a faint smile
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Review
    Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding sinuously rework Brazilian classics

    The veteran singer and the double bassist team up in a record that revisits highlights from Nascimento’s songbook

    An older bald man and a young woman sit at a gleaming grand piano together and look at each other
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Review
    Louis Cole: Nothing — dazzling technique and laid-back irreverence

    Cole expands his sound palette, moving from bouncy jazz pop to orchestral moodiness

    Black and white photo of a man in a crewcut looking serious in black sunglasses and a glossy black puffa jacket
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Review
    Lise Davidsen offers Wagnerian fire at Vienna Philharmonic summer concert

    The orchestra is on fine form in its annual Sommernachtskonzert

    A woman with dark brown hair in a floral dress sings in front of an orchestra
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Review
    Jack White revisits the rough-and-ready style of The White Stripes in No Name

    The album looks back at his alternative-rock origins with revving riffs and distorted guitars

    Jack White sits with his back against a black wall in an all-denim outfit while strumming an electric guitar
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Review
    Pixey: Million Dollar Baby album review — self-taught singer-songwriter finds her own voice

    In her first full studio album, the proudly DIY multi-instrumentalist mixes Nineties influences with snappy hooks

    Pixey, with bleach-blond hair and wearing a brown shirt with a buckle attached to sleeves, stands against a black background holding a lighter with a flame
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Review
    No More Water by Meshell Ndegeocello — a powerful hymn of praise to James Baldwin

    To mark Baldwin’s centenary, the singer-songwriter and bassist offers a musical tribute that blends fury and fervour

    A black and white photo of Meshell Ndegeocello staring unsmiling directly at the camera, wearing a pin-striped blazer
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Review
    Iladi by Linda Sikhakhane — Coltrane’s spirit haunts South African jazz ceremony

    Ancestors of all kinds are honoured in this warm, inventive release by the South African saxophonist

    Linda Sikhanene sits with a saxophone on his lap wearing a mauve jumpsuit against a grey and lilac background
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Review
    New Dances of the League of David review — Schumann gets a contemporary twist

    Pianist David Kaplan performs 16 new commissions responding to Schumann’s dreamlike piano miniatures

    David Kaplan, wearing a dark suit and blue shirt, sits and leans an elbow over a a grand piano with one hand resting on the keys
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Review
    Ice Spice: Y2K! — debut stakes her claim as the princess of rap

    The Bronx rapper’s tracks have been designed for catchiness and brevity, but some fall prey to monotony

    A woman with short reddish orange hair in tight ringlets, poses against a purple and blue background wearing a sparkly black T-shirt with spiky purple lettering across the front
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Review
    MoonDial by Pat Metheny — solo guitar album is out of this world

    The jazz fusion pioneer employs a specially designed baritone guitar to offer psychedelic sounds and eclectic effects

    Pat Metheny, with long grey hair and wearing a blue checked shirt, poses smiling whilst holding a guitar against the background of an urban street
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Review
    As I Roved Out: A Story Of Celtic Rock 1968-78 — Irish tunes get a European twist

    This compilation includes many of the movement’s big hitters and includes artists from as far afield as Switzerland and Brittany

    A black and white photo of men in a garden playing musical instruments in front of a large speaker
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Review
    Aigul: five stars for Aigul Akhmetshina’s burnished debut album

    Singing excerpts from five operas, the rising star mezzo sounds as gloriously full-voiced as she does live

    Aigul Akhmetshina posing against a grey background, her long dark hair falling wildly over her shoulders and partially covering her face
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Review
    William Christie and Justin Taylor battle harpsichords in Conversation

    French master Gaspard Le Roux’s suites for two harpsichords are elegantly revived by these duelling instrumentalists

    A young man with dark hair sits next to an older man with white hair and glasses, both wearing dark suits in front of a red background
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Review
    Al Stewart: Past, Present & Future — five stars for remastered, decade-hopping album

    The spruced-up version of this folk-rock classic is accompanied by a surround-sound version and a 1974 live set

    A photo of a young Al Stewart in the 1970s with long, shaggy brown hair, looking off pensively into the distance
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