Reviews
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
Entre l’Érable et le Cocotier
Although born in Montréal, singer and multi-instrumentalist Pascale LeBlanc grew up in Haiti, her mother’s homeland. Her songs reflect much...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2023
Ecos de Magerit
This album offers ‘Echoes from Magerit,’ a phonetic representation of the Arabic name for the Spanish capital. It’s the second...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: January/February/2023
Dose a Nova
Now that the Balkan Beats hyperbole appears to be out of fashion, erstwhile pioneers of the genre Ori Kaplan and...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/February/2023
Helleristning
Alapnes was five when she stood in her grandfather’s kitchen in North Norway learning how to hold the fiddle that...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2023
