Reviews

Tobie

Dagadana

Dagadana’s fifth studio album should be given kudos as an attempt to provide ‘cheerfulness and generosity’ in our often gloomy,...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2021

Astor Piazzolla: Aconcagua/Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Martynas Levickis

There are too many random, unfocused, greatest hits cover albums of Piazzolla’s work, so it’s good to see a record...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021

Cantos

Okonkolo

Capturing the slow-burning fervour of an Afro-Cuban bembe – the rituals paying homage to the orisha deities of the Santería...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021

Manduka

Manduka

That Alexandre Manuel Thiago de Mello (aka Manduka), born in Petrópolis, a city in the south-east Brazil, isn’t a bigger...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2021

Iorram

Aidan O’Rourke

Iorram (Boat Song) begins with electro-washes of ambient sound, swooping back and forth, as if in the process of self...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021

Czary i Czarty

Wicher

With last issue’s Devil’s Fiddle album, the recent Daj Ognia disc with its dance-of-death track and this Wicher release, maybe...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

River of Happy Souls

Bapi Das Baul

Bapi Das Baul is son of Purna Das Baul and grandson of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who became friendly with...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

Char Taal and a Raga Rainbow

Rakkatak

These days North India is far from the only place you can find examples of the Hindustani music associated with...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2021

Wolo So

Balimaya Project

Five years in the making, this debut album by the Balimaya Project (balimaya meaning ‘Essence of Kinship’ in the Maninka...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: October/2021

Haar

HAV

This second album from Scottish ambient folk trio HAV is as ethereal and elusive as the coastal environment it is...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2021