Reviews
We Are the Keepers
Maybe it’s the feeling of hopelessness that’s enveloped the US right now, or the sense of impending dread as a...
Reviewed by Devon Leger in issue: February/March/2025
Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
Recorded by inmates of Mississippi’s Parchman Prison alongside Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan, this album picks up where 2023’s Some Mississippi...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2025
Nací Mestizo
Intertextuality is not a common word to introduce a review of dance music, but it is everywhere in this second...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2025
Allt Vol II: Cuimhne
Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre
This is the second outing for a supergroup connecting the pan-Gaelic traditions of Hebridean Scotland and Ireland. It unites Julie...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2025
Faka Mulilo
As a boy in the late 90s growing up in the village of Kolomwe in Zambia, Waina Kolomwe was given...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
Music in the Realm of Fireflies: Improvisations for Peace and Healing
This is meditative music, created by a group of Japanese and Japan-based musicians playing Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Korean and Mongolian...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: December/2024
Ajdad – Ancestors (Echoes of Persia)
Another record from a Western-based Iranian musician with the same familiar themes: mystical song titles, cross-cultural collaboration and, of course,...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: February/March/2025
Chicha Por Favor Vol 1 – Grooves from El Volcán: The Heartbeat of Peruvian Cumbia
These grooves constitute a limited-edition LP of ten tracks from the El Volcán label recorded during the 70s and 80s....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2025
Monolam
Monolam means unique, although the blend that Khana Bierbood present on their second album is a cross between Thailand and...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: December/2024
