Reviews
Amen Amwin
Promoted as an ‘exceptional collective of musicians electrifying the Indian Ocean,’ AyoZaad are dominated by the electronica of Italian-Australian DJ...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2025
Highlife
In his previous work, Ghanaian trumpeter Peter Somuah has brought flavours of highlife into the idiom of contemporary jazz. With...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2025
Gbεfalɔi (Travellers)
Accra Quartet are a trio of Ghanaian players joined by an American, although the latter spends most of his musical...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/2025
Bu Bir Demdir
Alevi-German singer Aylin Yıldırım and her band of Augsburg-based musicians on saz, guitar, drums, bass and keys perform a selection...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/2025
Guepa Je!
Radio Martiko’s compilation of Lucho Bermúdez’ cumbia from the 50s and 60s was a highlight of 2022. This latest illuminates...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2025
Avoudé
Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band
With Avoudé, Dogo du Togo makes a dynamic leap from the stripped-back sound of his 2022 debut to an electrifying...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: January/2025
Jouer
Here’s an easy-going fusion set, in which a Swedish jazz flautist teams up with a Malian ngoni player for a...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2025
Made It All Up
Sociograss formed in 2018 when guitarist and singer Tim Leslie of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, visited Edinburgh, Scotland, for the first time....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/2025
A Terrible Beauty
More than half a century after his debut LP, Christy Moore’s first outing on Claddagh Records shows there’s still mileage...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/2025
