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Review of Interior

Interior

Rosa Anschütz

Klangbad

Rating: ★★★★

Who said musicians had to stick to one art form? Not the fabulous Rosa Anschütz, a Berlin-based creative – or...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Bin Dilde

Bin Dilde

Çiçek Taksi

CCK

Rating: ★★★★

‘Flower Taxi’ in English, present their second album, which means ‘in a thousand languages.’ Singer Selin Dettwiler, of Turkish-Kurdish background...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Hysterrae

Hysterrae

Hysterrae

Linfa

Rating: ★★★★★

This album brings together four musicians, all women, from three different traditions who draw on music from Afghanistan to southern...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Losean

Losean

JO BISSA x KAN

Babani Records

Rating: ★★★

This is a curious, patchily atmospheric album created by two artists who have never met. JO BISSA is a Dutch...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Delight

Delight

Arushi Jain

Top of the World

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★★★★

With 2021’s Under the Lilac Sky, Arushi Jain announced herself as a gifted alchemist of electronica and Hindustani music through...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Mburu

Mburu

Jean-Paul Raffit & Paamath

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★★

Raffit is a French composer and jazz and blues guitarist who 15 years ago founded the Chambre d’Hôte Orchestra. One...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Essia

Essia

Wajdi Riahi Trio

Fresh Sound New Talent

Rating: ★★★★

Tunisian-born, Brussels-based pianist Wajdi Riahi is undoubtedly adept at composing and performing melodically and rhythmically complex contemporary jazz. Aided ably...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Kasbatek

Kasbatek

Abdul & The Gang

Top of the World

Abou Bakre Bensalem/Z Production

Rating: ★★★★

‘Gnawa funk’, a blend of sounds from ‘the Orient, from the Maghreb, chaabi melodies and Gnawa rhythms’ is the proclamation...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Habitat

Habitat

C’Mon Tigre

Intersuoni

Rating: ★★★

Habitat is the fourth album by C’Mon Tigre, the enigmatic world music collective that has been defying boundaries of genre...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Hizbut Jámm

Hizbut Jámm

Hizbut Jámm

Top of the World

Instant Classic

Rating: ★★★★

Polish guitarist and composer Raphael Rogiński has been busy. In September his solo album, Talàn, garnered rave reviews from all...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

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