Reviews
Once We Had a Home
The Rohingya people are among the most persecuted on the planet. In 1982, they were driven from their ancestral homes...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2024
Believer
Three albums in and it feels like Blue Cactus, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, have finally found themselves. In truth,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater Johnson in issue: June/2025
Cancionera
We know Natalia Lafourcade can turn on the intimacy and intensity. On 2024’s Live at Carnegie Hall, she managed to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2025
Luna, Cera e Vino
From southern Italy comes what is described as a “dreamlike journey through memories, recollections and new images” of the ancient...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2025
Seinferð
Faroe Islands-born, Copenhagen-based Lea Kampmann’s Seinferð (translated as Slow Motion) is characterised by a desire to encourage greater engagement with...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2025
The Wind
German Jazz vocalist and composer Simin Tander explores a plethora of folkloric traditions – in particular those of Spain, Italy,...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2025
Djiyo
Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto
Anyone who heard Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto on their last collaboration, Instant from 2022, will probably want to hear...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2025
Ma Gitala
It’s been a while since we last had a record from our favourite Malawian busking duo, but Madalitso Band are...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2025
Balabeatz
It’s the fourth album in almost ten years for this band created in Toulouse when balafon virtuoso Seydou Diabaté and...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: July/2025
