Reviews
Myth of the Drum
Jone Takamäki, Umut Çağlar & Fahrettin Aykut
This gloriously unfettered improvised jam – split into two halves – finds Fahrettin Aykut, former drummer with Turkish psychonauts Baba Zula,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022
Carnaval de Pernambuco
Writing a one-star review is never nice, especially when you know that the artists’ hearts are in the right place,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
A World Like This
Seasoned producer and performer of what he describes as ‘folk/roots/labour and protest music,’ George Mann is a former union organiser...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2022
Tongues
One can never be fully prepared before entering Tanya Tagaq’s latest creation Tongues. Bold and experimental, the album is a...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: April/2022
Amplexo
What does it currently take to stand out from the massive crowd of new fadistas that keeps growing by the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022
Harley Kimbro Lewis
Collectively, Martin Harley, Daniel Kimbro and Sam Lewis draw upon low country and backwoods blues, Appalachian folk balladry, cosmopolitan R&B...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2022
A Drop for Neptune
A Drop for Neptune marks the debut album for Glasgow based six-piece TRIP, and it’s an album steeped in the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2022
Zay Freylekh!
The Russian klezmer band Dobranotch (Goodnight) are like a retro homage to the larger bands of the American klezmer revival...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2022
Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of
Originally issued only on CD in 2011, Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of is something of a ‘lost classic’...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2022
