New label Future Rust offers this compilation as an immersion into the subculture of the handpan, commonly called hang. The...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2020
It’s a long way from Archway in North London to Santiago de Cuba, but Son Yambu – who take their...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
This scintillating album from Durban trio Phelimuncasi is named after a South African bee famed for its power and brutal...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2022
Marcela Arroyo, Andreas Engler & Daniel Schläppi
The title of this intriguing collection, Tres Mil Uno (3001), perhaps indicates that Argentinian-born, Swiss-based singer Marcela Arroyo, Swiss violinist...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2017
The Three Forges is further evidence that gamelan is on its way to being a global music, a set of...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: December/2015
This is their first album, but Alan Kelly (piano accordion), Tola Custy (fiddle), Steph Geremia (flute and vocals) and Tony...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
A mixture of canny production, assured rapping and tough- to-extricate earworms make this debut album from Brazilian rapper Karol Conka...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2014
Paris-based Argentinian guitarist Rudi Flores takes standards and classics from tango, chamamé, valse and milonga, and replaces all the busy...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Reggae snobs bristle whenever they hear mento described as “Jamaican calypso”. Admittedly, it’s a lazy way of putting it, but...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2010
After singing with South African kwaito pioneers Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa Mazwai's 2004 solo debut Zabalaza marked something of a departure....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
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