Hannah Delynn – Trust Fall (self-released, 2025) When an artist releases a debut full-length album, it often feels like the opening of a long-sealed journal.…
Falling Into Place: Hannah Delynn’s “Trust Fall” Lands September 5, 2025
Category: Album reviews
A Step Well Taken: Roomful Of Blues ‘Steppin’ Out!’
Roomful Of Blues — Steppin’ Out! (Alligator Records, 2025) Roomful of Blues returns with Steppin’ Out!, the band’s 20th album and the first to feature…
Harboring Genius: Agustín Pereyra Lucena’s Rare Gem Resurfaces
Agustín Pereyra Lucena – Puertos de Alternativa (Far Out Recordings, 2025) Far Out Recordings expands its archival series with the first-ever vinyl reissue of Puertos…
Strings of a Feather
Ahmed Mukhtar and Lusardi Monteverde – Al-hambra (ARC Music, 2025) Flamenco guitar and the Arabic lute known as the oud go together like, well, feel…
Saha Gnawa Channels Spellbinding Gnawa Roots Into Future Sound
Saha Gnawa – Saha Gnawa (Pique-Nique Recordings, 2025) Saha Gnawa is a Brooklyn-based ensemble that combines transfixing Moroccan Gnawa music with jazz, from New York’s…
Yimenga, Solo Debut by Solo Diarra
Solo Diarra – Yimenga (Global Sonics GS06125, 2025) Yimenga is the debut solo album of Burkinan multi-instrumentalist Solo Diarra. Yimenga means “Be Yourself” in Bambara.…
Desert Dreaming: Warlpiri Wisdom Meets Minimal Electronica
Crown and Country – Crown and Country (ABC Music and Akuphone, 2025) Crown and Country is an ambitious audiovisual project that fuses ancestral Warlpiri ceremony with…
I’m Just Mad About Zafarán
Zafarán – Zafarán (self-release, 2025) It doesn’t take long. Bjorn Wennas’ softly pensive guitar is joined by the heart-drenched vocals of Carmen Marsico. Dan Meyers’…
Clave Encounters: Joaquín Núñez Charts Cuba’s Rhythmic Lineage
Joaquin Núñez & Habana Safari – Ruta De La Clave (Lulaworld Records LWR051A, 2025) Irresistible Cuban rhythms meet contemporary jazz on Ruta De La Clave…
Kora Across Borders: Althea SullyCole Charts a Transatlantic Path on ‘Due West’
Althea SullyCole – Due West (self-release, 2025) Althea SullyCole’s album Due West distills fourteen years of kora study into a transcontinental journey through African diasporic…