Reviews
El Bueno y el Malo
Swiss-Ecuadorian guitar duo Hermanos Gutiérrez make their intentions clear from the first twang of heavily-reverbed guitar. Sitting somewhere between Tarantino...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: January/February/2023
Le Solas Faoithine
It’s been a wait for a follow-up to Jack Warnock’s debut EP in 2013. A decade on, the County Derry-born...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/February/2023
MusicAlly
If you can get past the absolutely dreadful title, this album does contain some nice moments. Ertuğrul Erhan, on violin,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/February/2023
Ukubonga
Lorraine Klaasen & Mongezi Ntaka
It was astonishing how quickly the resistance music of the townships – The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, as it was memorably...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Yoruba Odyssey
In recent years Nigerian music has become synonymous with the globalised Afrobeats of the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Recalentados
We know that Los Amparito, the project of Mexican producer Carlos Pesina Siller, is playful because a) Los Amparito is...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2023
Gog Magog
After four years, The Trials of Cato are back with a second album that’s even better than their award-winning debut....
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/February/2023
In the Footsteps of Rumi
Ghalia Benali, Kiya Tabassian & Constantinople
The 13th-century mystic Jalaluddin Rumi has become the most famous of Sufi poets as his lyrics chime with a modern,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2023
While You Were Slumbering
Expert fiddler and banjoist and scholar of southern Appalachian music, Tennessee native Joseph Decosimo bears the legacy of the Cumberland...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2023
