Reviews
Koren
Born out of encounters between field songs, grand opera and Latin music in a New Orleans port (among other things),...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: September/2025
Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
Welsh acoustic finger stylist Gwenifer Raymond's second album, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (2020), saw a huge leap forward from...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: September/2025
Spilla
Founded in Nantes by Australian drummer-percussionist Will Guthrie in 2019, Nist-Nah is an ensemble combining Javanese gamelan instruments with other...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: September/2025
Metamusik Festival Berlin ‘74
Previously unreleased, this pristine recording captures the Pakistani master of the kyhal tradition of Hindustani classical vocal music, Salamat Ali...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2025
Sametou Sawtan
Lebanese sextet Sanam's second release consolidates the brooding post-rock territory proposed on their 2023 debut, Aykathani Malakon Again, Sandy Chamoun's...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2025
Nu Sta Li
Following in the footsteps of influential groups like Bulimundo, Luxembourg-based Cape Verdeans Grupo Pilón have been updating the funaná genre...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2025
Retumba La Tierra
Calle Mambo are a five-piece band that combine traditional Chilean instrumentation with synthesizers and modern flourishes to create a hybrid...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: August/2025
Cold Blows the Wind
The assured trio of Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on melodeon, concertina and vocals, singer and guitarist George Sansome and violinist Lewis Wood...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2025
MEL
Efrén López, Ciro Montanari & Jordi Prats
A welcome return for Spanish/Italian trio, Efrén López, Ciro Montanari and Jordi Prats, who play rabab (Afghan lute), tabla (hand...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: August/2025
