Reviews
Archeology
Montparnasse Musique are an unstoppable Afro-Futurist dynamic duo: Algerian-French DJ/producer with a visual arts background, Nadjib, and South African house...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2022
Wonderland
The first thing that hits you is the voice. Bright, clear, high-pitched, as sharply faceted as polished amethyst, tinged with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2022
Neon Colonialismo
It's ten years since musical free radical Batida, aka Pedro Coquenão, exploded into my dance floor set with his Batida...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2022
History Has a Heartbeat
Joseph Tawadros with William Barton
Born in Cairo, Egypt and having emigrated to Australia aged three, Joseph Tawadros has done much to expand the boundaries...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2022
Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga and Rumba, 1980-1985
It's indicative of how the music of East Africa has been overshadowed by its West African cousin that none of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
The Coast Road
Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle
Boston-born fiddler Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe and bouzouki, guitar and piano player Daniel Quayle from the Isle of Man first began playing...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2022
DOST 2
Derya Yıldırım's vocal style may not be to everyone's taste. Compared to Anatolian pop living-legend Selda Bağcan, with whom Yıldırım...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: December/2022
This Is Funkiwala
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
London-based record label Funkiwala is a global music treasure trove, a spiritual and (hopefully) commercial home for the best and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2022
Starshine
Taiwan sadly remains an afterthought in the world music community so having another A Moving Sound album arrive in 2022,...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2022
Telluric Translations
Quee MacArthur, Luke Plumb, Joseph Peach, Charlie Grey
Conceived amid the strangeness that became normality during lockdown, Telluric Translations is the result of four musicians communicating across the...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2022
