Reviews

Is What You Make It

TaxiCab Verses

Originally released in 2016, Is What You Make It is now being reissued. The project has a delightful origin story....

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Siparia to Soweto

Hugh Masekela & Siparia Deltones

Hugh Masekela first heard the Trinidadian steel pan orchestra the Siparia Deltones when they were opening act at the inaugural...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Windrush Baby

Aleighcia Scott

The debut album from the Welsh-Jamaican singer Aleighcia Scott is worth checking out both for the range and variety of...

Reviewed in issue December/2023

Last Night a Woman Saved My Life

Dominique Dalcan

Last Night a Woman Saved My Life is a mesmerising journey into the space between Western minimalism and Middle Eastern...

Reviewed in issue December/2023

Mango

Mo’Horizons

Helming Mo’ Horizons are two Hannoverian DJs and producers, Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark Wetzler, who have been plying their Euro-Brazilian...

Reviewed in issue December/2023

Ooroo

Sangit

Like an Israeli equivalent of Nitin Sawhney, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Sangit draws on global influences and a wide range...

Reviewed in issue December/2023

Hadsel

Beirut

Zach Condon takes his stage name from the capital of Lebanon because Beirut is where cultures meet and was ‘known...

Reviewed in issue December/2023

Aiê

LUIZGA & Edgar Valente

The nomadic Brazilian singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist LUIZGA is perhaps better known as Luiz Gabriel Lopes, erstwhile member of groups...

Reviewed in issue December/2023

Take to the Streets

Eparapo

Afrobeat creeps into so many heterogeneous mixes today that it’s refreshing to hear an unadulterated version. Conceived during the destabilising...

Reviewed in issue December/2023

Nowruz

Aga Khan Master Musicians

The six musicians comprising this group have all been involved in the Aga Khan Music Programme as performers, teachers and...

Reviewed in issue December/2023