Reviews

God’s Plenty

Padang Food Tigers

Ambient duo Padang Food Tigers do not equip listeners with a map to navigate their signature fusion of found sound,...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/February/2022

Se Quema el Mundo

LPT

LPT are a ten-piece Afro-Cuban band out of Jacksonville, Florida whose 2018 debut album, Sin Parar, won a clutch of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/February/2022

La Tercera Vision

Lagartijeando

Argentinian musician, DJ and programmer Lagartijeando (aka Mati Zundel) plays Andean-inspired electronic folk with a psychedelic lite touch; there’s always...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022

Umoyo Wa Muthempire (Live in the Temple)

Tonga Boys feat Doctor Kanuska Group

For those in the Malawian countryside, the Tonga Boys from Mzuzu are a band from the big city and the...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2022

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ÌFÉ

ÌFÉ is the brainchild of Otura Mun, a producer and percussionist deeply invested in creative practice from Cuba and Puerto...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: January/February/2022

Shandao

Shanren

As a renowned Chinese folk band from Yunnan, one of the most ethnically diverse parts of southern China, Shanren has...

Reviewed by Yijia Tu in issue: January/February/2022

Diversity

Ebo Krdum

Diversity is a theme in Ebo Krdum’s life. Growing up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan, his...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2022

Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This album is a celebration Danongan Kalanduyan (1947-2016), a musician who migrated to the US in the 1970s from Mindanao...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: January/February/2022

Golden Loam

Laurel Premo

Using fingerstyle electric guitar and lap steel, Michigan-based multi-instrumentalist Premo plumbs layers of harmonic ambience, granular textural effects and the...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022

Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The project Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony consists of a double album and book. Several electronic artists were commissioned to create...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: January/February/2022