Reviews

From the Ground

Laura-Beth Salter & Ali Hutton

Nature now can be attributed as a band member on albums and songs, and it should see royalties pour down...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2024

Ukouk

Marewrew

Ukouk (round-singing) celebrates over a decade of Marewrew’s entrancing Ainu songs, with tonkori collaboration from Oki Kano on several tracks....

Reviewed by Georgette Nummelin in issue: July/2024

Amrak Seedna & Abtal Wa Harameyah

Ziad Rahbani

Ziad Rahbani is the son of Lebanese icon Fairuz and famed composer Assi Rahbani and a living legend in Lebanon,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024

All You Need is Death

Ian Lynch

All You Need is Death is the first cinematic soundtrack from Lankum’s Ian Lynch. The film of the same name...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2024

Dala Toni

Ajate

Dala Toni is the third album to be released by the Japanese-Afrobeat fusion collective Ajate. Led since 2009 by Junichiro...

Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: July/2024

Gordan

Gordan

The members of Gordan are Serbian singer Svetlana Spajić, Austrian percussionist Andi Stecher and German bassist and electronics specialist Guido...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2024

Birds

Vedan Kolod

A strange, compelling concept album from a family folk trio from Siberia who are deservedly well-known across Russia. Vedan Kolod...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2024

Lúireach

Landless

Landless are a female vocal quartet – Ruth Clinton, Sinéad Lynch, Méabh Meir, Lily Power – newly into their second...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2024

Tropikantele

Ruttusound

Chilling with a piña colada after a sauna? That might be the vibe as Finland’s national instrument, the kantele, fuses...

Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: July/2024

Once We Had a Home

Rohingya Refugees

The Rohingya people are among the most persecuted on the planet. In 1982, they were driven from their ancestral homes...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2024