Reviews
Mag’oki Attori
Recorded in 2023 but released towards the end of 2025, this deeply moving live performance dedicated to the Maghoki Attori...
Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: May/2026
Afrosoul 2
This disconcerting compilation leaps from one idea to another, trying to find something fresh. An array of African acts unsuccessfully...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: July/2014
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
This is a new recording of old-school highlife and Afrobeat from one of Ghana's great vocalists, backed by a scorching...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Future Rust Vol 1
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
La Maravilla
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
Ama Gogela
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
Tres Mil Uno
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
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
Small Towns and Famous Nights
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
Batuk Freak
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
