Reviews

Nay’ Indaba

Marthe x Pilani Bubu

In the Xhosa language, indaba refers to an authorised meeting, such as a conference of chiefs, called to discuss a...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

I Too am a Stranger

The Sorcerers

The Sorcerers are not exactly prolific – this is their third album in nine years – but they are a...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

The Otium Mixtape

KILEDJIAN

David Kiledjian is a producer/musician based in Lyon. This debut solo album puts us in touch with Lyon’s futurist electronic...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

BRSB

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

Bacao pan out of Hamburg, lending a Caribbean touch to rap hits, although some of these covers are somewhat mainstream...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Extinct But Still Alive

Mama Longhorn

This is Finnish music collective Mama Longhorn’s fourth album in a 13-year career which has seen them acclaimed as among...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

High Above Harlesden [Box Set]

Creation Rebel

Creation Rebel are pioneers of the UK dub scene. Emerging from working-class London in the late 1970s, their music stepped...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Otherness

AO Music

Imagine yourself watching a performance where musicians perform a kaleidoscope celebrating world traditions, including multi-lingual voices, sometimes mysteriously inserting newly...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

(In search of) New Flemish Masters

Osama Abdulrasol

Abdulrasol is a brave and intriguing musician. A multi-instrumentalist born in Iraq and now based in Belgium, he plays an...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

King Perry

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Upsetters | Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

When visionary dub producer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry died in 2021, it came as a surprise. At 85, Perry’s energy seemed...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Suave Bruta

Ëda Diaz

There has recently been a wave of new approaches in Britain and continental Europe to mainland Latin American music, often...

Reviewed in issue April/2024