Reviews
vipérine
This delightfully strange set comes from US-born Marseille resident Turner Williams Jr., a string player from the Alabama surrealist scene...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2026
Dominion of Spells
I’ve not heard either of the two AI-generated Emily Portman ‘albums’ that appeared, briefly, on Spotify last year, but Dominion...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2026
Siya
Hami Hamoo (‘more or less’ in Farsi) brings together French saxophonist Michaël Havard (of Ethio-jazz group Arat Kilo), Burkinabe singer-guitarist...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2026
The Endless Dance
A Northern Irish composer and a Chinese percussionist have developed their musical acquaintance into a propulsive, electro-percussive suite of experiments....
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2026
Ethiopiques 32
Nalbandian the Ethiopian & Either/Orchestra
Boston’s Either/Orchestra featured on Ethiopiques 20 in a live recording made in Addis in 2004 and resurface here with a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2026
Galaxia Tropical
This is Analog Africa’s eagerly anticipated second volume of works by Jorge Raúl Llerena Vásquez, the legendary cumbia singer and...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2026
Al Wahem
PRAED is an amalgamation of Raed Yassin (electronics, vocals) and Paed Conca (clarinets, bass, samples), from Lebanon and Switzerland respectively,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2026
Başka Bahar
Over the last decade, there’s been a slew of European bands – often including a Turkish member – who’ve drawn...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2026
Spanish Dogs
It’s surprising that this brassy nine-piece outfit hails from Madrid, as from the opening ‘Batanga Caballero’ (underlined later by ‘Cocacho...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2026
Vishap
Armenian singer-composer Victoria Alexanyan moved to Lyon to study French language and culture in 2018. There she began to combine...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: May/2026
