Reviews
Wake the Dead
San-Franciscan Chuck Prophet teams up with cumbia urbana group ¿Qiensave? from California with roots in Michoacán, Mexico, on Wake the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2024
Parlour Ballads
Parlour ballads, as a genre, get poor press as low-grade, middle-class Victoriana, but here’s Jon Boden at the piano (and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2024
Inner Spirits
Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren and Brazilian guitarist Yamandu Costa’s collaborative debut is a thing of beauty. Cast as an Ecuadorian...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/2024
New Moon
This is a very smooth bit of music-making from Carnatic violinist Arun Ramamurthy, accompanied by Damon Banks on bass and...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2024
Zoom Zemmatt
Senegalese singer and guitarist Mangane is somewhat of a late bloomer. At age 60, Zoom Zemmatt is his first release...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: January/2025
Wani
Wani showcases an explosive collision between traditional Indonesian forms and Western instrumentation. It’s a daring and highly experimental project glued...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: January/2025
Erbil
The Syrian singer Omar Souleyman’s fifth studio album, Erbil, is filled with the celebration of life through music. Souleyman performs...
Reviewed by Thérèse Wassily Saba in issue: August/2024
SIHR
Frédéric D Oberland, Grégory Dargent, Tony Elieh & Wassim Halal
This album by four musicians from the eastern end of the Mediterranean is a real gallimaufry, in the best sense...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/2024
Kokoro
Tel Aviv-based quartet Sababa 5’s third full-length album in as many years is, in fact, a compilation of the A...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2024
