Reviews
Taa! – Our Language May Be Dying, But Our Voices Remain (Botswana)
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
A project from Hidden Musics, an international music series of field-recorded albums produced by award-winning music producer Ian Brennan and...
Reviewed by Hillary Palesa Morusi in issue: August/September/2023
Substrat
Guillem Ballaz is a musician and musical historian who has set out to explore and revitalise the Catalan folk songs...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/September/2023
Stretching Skyward
Gnoss (like Talisk, Eriska and TRIP) are part of Glasgow's lively music scene, though the band originated in Scotland's Northern...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: August/September/2023
On the Path of the Shirazis
This album is aimed squarely at festival dance music tents and clubs. Afro-Electric DJ ARASHKHA (Arash Khalatbari) is a man...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: August/September/2023
Lost & Found
Nick Beggs has a career extending back to the high point of early 80s New Romantic pop, and the band...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2023
Toda un Alegría
It's very difficult to pigeonhole the music of Barcelona's Adriano Galante, although ‘understated Hispanophone quietism with a very distant nod...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2023
Yuh Yuh
While the music of Paris-based sensations Haïdouti Orkestar dances along the path forged by their Ottoman ancestors, the band's gait...
Reviewed by Harry Fyjis-Walker in issue: October/2023
Kora World
Best-known for a series of fine albums as a duo with his kora-playing Swedish wife Sousou, on this fine solo...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2023
