TONY BURKE reviews new releases from Cheikh Lo, Mishra & Deepa Shakthi, N’Faly Kouyate

Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th-century London’s growing funeral trade, posits DAN O’BRIEN

ANDY HEDGECOCK sees his scepticism lessened by a story is more complex and far-reaching than is initially apparent

MARK TURNER holds on tight for a mesmerising display of Neath-born ragtime virtuosity

ALAN MORRISON introduces a UK poet whose despised daytime occupation provides the subject for his writing

MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long