Reviews
Chapter I: Forever, For Now
Anoushka Shankar’s last significant release, Love Letters, released in 2020 on Mercury Classics, was a very personal collection of songs...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2023
Tusona: Tracings in the Sand
Mokoomba are back at last, six years on from their last album Luyando and ten years after winning a Songlines...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2023
Mutations
Ever since 2017's Tribal Match found its way onto Kampala's dancefloors, Faizal Mostrixx has been a driving force on Uganda's...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2023
Hämärä
If you see the name Eero Grundström (Sväng, Suistamon Sähkö) on any release, go for it. It’ll be a bit...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2023
Timba a la Americana
No messing around for Harold López-Nussa; it's all courses served at once with ‘Funky’, an irrepressible display of groove and...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2023
Pata de Perra
Laso, a key figure in contemporary Argentine tango, teams up with producer Aldo ‘Macha’ Asenjo of Chilean cumbia outfit Chico...
Reviewed by Charis McGowan in issue: January/February/2024
Okantomi
In recent years Cuba’s Santería religion, a vigorous survival of West African religious practices reconstituted as Catholic adoration of the...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: January/February/2024
Move into the Luminous
The cool, ambient depth charges embedded across Move into the Luminous come from prolific double bassist Jon Thorne (Lamb, Yorkston...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2024
Manual de Romería
For some years now, Rodrigo Cuevas has been living in a little village in Asturias, retreating from contact with big...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2024
