Reviews
Ciel: Tales from the Box
Thanos Stavridis & Stella Tempreli
Tales from the Box is a collaboration between accordionist Thanos Stavridis and cellist Stella Tempreli. This debut from the duo...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2024
Aguidavi do Jêje
Slaves from present-day Nigeria, Benin and Togo brought Candomblé to Bahia (Brazil) where it thrived, developing into Afro-Brazilian ceremonies performed...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2024
All My Friends
A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024
Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu
Sezen Aksu: an unconventional contemporary female public figure in Turkey, for half a century she commented with her songs on...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2024
Extinct But Still Alive
This is Finnish music collective Mama Longhorn’s fourth album in a 13-year career which has seen them acclaimed as among...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: May/2024
Mundo Solo
I have been an admirer of the prolific Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano Do Nascimento for several years. Based in...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2024
Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends
In 1960s America, you couldn’t enter a coffee house without running into a malcontent folk singer with a ratty guitar...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024
Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking
This is literally a cassette mixtape, limited to 300 copies, although also available digitally. The mechanics of cooking, the sociability...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2024
Microfolk 1-3
Chaz Knapp, Cy Werner & Chaz Prymek
The deeply impressionistic, pointillist improvisations spread across these three wonderful collaborative cassette releases are like subtle adornments to the natural...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: December/2023
