Reviews

For(e)ward

Made Kuti

The dynasty continues with the debut from Omorinmade Kuti, grandson of Fela and son of Femi – but with a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021

Henry Martin

Edgelarks

Some voices just hit you right in the guts. One of those is that of Hannah Martin – the Devon...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2021

Anatolian Sun

Moğollar

Moğollar (the Mongols) were the original Anatolian rockers and coiners of the term ‘Anatolian pop.’ Back in the late 60s...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2021

Coti Coti

Nahui Cuarteto de Saxofones

How much sax can you take? Anyone working in the vicinity of a tireless one-hit busker or being driven by...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2021

We Are

Lucidvox

Rich, dark, romantic, apocalyptic, brooding… The swirling aural textures of this Russian quartet's debut album give rise to a surfeit...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2021

RAAZ

Hooshyar Khayam & Bamdad Afshar

Like an intoxicated dream, the sounds of provincial Iran and the wider world warp and meld into a feverish blurring...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2021

Touch of Freedom

Arya Aramnejad

Exiled from his native Iran for a song denouncing the Islamic regime, Arya Aramnejad now makes his music in Stockholm....

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2021

Shall We Hope

Tony Trischka

Just when you think the cultural lodestone of America's Civil War has given up every drop of blood it could...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021

Solarius Gamma

Ozferti

Florian Doucet is a producer, guitarist and graphic designer formerly of Afro-Colombian party starters La Chiva Gantiva, but his masked...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2021

Samā'ī

Azmari

When Belgian six-piece Azmari get into that Ethio-groove, they go in hard. The immediately distinctive Ethiopian kignit scales possess horn...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2021