Reviews
Encyclopedia Mandolinnica
Mandolinist Ethan Setiawan’s latest album, Encyclopedia Mandolinnica, showcases the Indiana-born, Berklee School of Music graduate’s virtuosic skills in a series...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
Electric Chicha: The Singles Collection
A potent brew of Amazonian cumbia, Andean huayno and Latin rock, chicha is a Peruvian good-time hybrid that typically, like...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025
Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2
Woody Guthrie recorded these raw and intimate home tapes in his Brooklyn apartment during 1951 and 1952 as demos for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025
Mischief In The Musitorium
Frank Swart is an American maverick. A bass player and producer, he has worked and played with blues, rock and...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025
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After having previously released an album of immersive improvised music with her trio Sharav, interdisciplinary composer and qanun player Yael...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
I remember I forget
On her 2001 album as half of Beirut-based synth-pop duo Soapkills, Yasmine Hamdan captured the destruction and rebirth of her...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: October/2025
Une Voix M’Apelle: The Modern Lebanese Sound Of The Voix De L’orient Label 1967–1984
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Known as the ‘Switzerland of the Middle East’ during the 50s and 60s, Lebanon’s prosperous post-war economy saw its capital...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: October/2025
Mon Balo
Réunion singer, percussionist and composer Luc Moindranzé Karioudja releases his debut album, Mon Balo, in homage to his island’s traditional...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: December/2025
