Reviews
Digital Indigenous 08: Aliyuyo Uyoo
This is the eighth release in 1000HZ Records’ Digital Indigenous series featuring local producers who use rudimentary digital tools to...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: February/March/2025
Vol 2
The Awesome Tapes from Africa label started by reissuing Vol 3 by Malian singer Nahawa in 2011, and followed it...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: February/March/2025
Z’amalgame
In name, Z’amalgame suggests a coming-together, a melding of components and forces into a new, fortified whole. This Réunionese album,...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: February/March/2025
Undergrowth
This is the fifth album as leader by the Oslo-based trumpeter, who has long been a fixture on the Norwegian...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: February/March/2025
Cold Blows the Rain
Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions
This is a good period for ethereal and weird folk and traditional music, with acts like Milkweed seeing their idiosyncratic...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: February/March/2025
Dožam
With the rise in the number of female music graduates over the past couple of decades in Iran – where...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: February/March/2025
Ghadr
Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui
The trio of singer Sandy Chamoun and electronic music creators Anthony Sahyoun and Jad Atoui have produced an album that...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: February/March/2025
Curyman II
‘Curyman’, the opening track of Rogê’s (Roger José Cury) follow-up, revisits the final, brief ‘O Vento’ from 2023’s Curyman (reviewed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: February/March/2025
Echoes of Resistance
Has it really been two years since the release of Raz & Afla’s The Cycle? It must be, because here’s...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: February/March/2025
