Alice Coltrane's career, following the death of her husband, the legendary John, was remarkable for its dedication to the kind...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2017
This welcome, remastered reissue of a classic World Circuit album should help to adjust an imbalance created by the phenomenon...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
“Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and Mulatu Astatke walk into a bar…” No, it's not a joke but one way of...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2017
London-based Gnawa master Simo Lagnawi returns with his latest album, Africa Soyo, a clean, crisp recording – something that's very...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2020
Viktoria Mullova’s 2012 autobiography From Russia to Love describes how at the age of 24 she fled Soviet Russia in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2014
With Fumaça Preta having stormed the British critico-cultural barricades in spectacular fashion with their genre-mangling debut, it seems the hoary...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2016
With their third album, early bird // night owl, Dowally deliver yet another exciting and eclectic release. Over the last...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2021
Over a decade that’s seen all kinds of obscure and often fantastic Brazilian funk prised from the archives, the band...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Mynd is the apt title of this excellent album, an Old English word meaning both ‘act of commemoration’ and ‘intellect.’...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Danyèl Waro has spent the past 45 years becoming the international ambassador of maloya, the revolutionary roots music of the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
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