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
Somanti
The follow-up to 2020’s Vodou Alé opens with the Creole voices of Haitian vodou troupe Chouk Bwa echoing eerily between...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2023
Drum Money
Leke Awoyinka, otherwise known as Ekiti Sound, is a singer-songwriter and producer who has moved between Lagos and the UK,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2023
Desert Drip
It’s maybe not a very usual response to music to think, ‘how clever!’, but cleverness is what comes to mind...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: November/2023
Afro Futuristic Dreams
Ever since the Strut label resurrected their career, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids have produced some of the most compelling...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2023
Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) has foregone his usual jazz trumpet, relying instead on his amazing voice and...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2023
Identity
Sawhney’s back catalogue is freighted with album titles such as Migration, ...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2023
Nite Bjuti
Brooklyn- based trio Val Jeanty, Candice Hoyes and Mimi Jones release a haunting tribute to sustained jazz improvisation across 11...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: November/2023
Nothing But Green Willow
This album draws on songs collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles for their English Folk Songs from the Southern...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2023
