Reviews
Neon Colonialismo
It's ten years since musical free radical Batida, aka Pedro Coquenão, exploded into my dance floor set with his Batida...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
History Has a Heartbeat
Joseph Tawadros with William Barton
Born in Cairo, Egypt and having emigrated to Australia aged three, Joseph Tawadros has done much to expand the boundaries...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
This Is Funkiwala
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
London-based record label Funkiwala is a global music treasure trove, a spiritual and (hopefully) commercial home for the best and...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Telluric Translations
Quee MacArthur, Luke Plumb, Joseph Peach, Charlie Grey
Conceived amid the strangeness that became normality during lockdown, Telluric Translations is the result of four musicians communicating across the...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Sleeping Giants
Formed by violinist/bandleader Olivia Moore, Unfurl is a Manchester-based collective that draws upon contemporary jazz and Indian classical music, partially...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Sangam
Paul Livingstone & Pete Jacobson
The chamber music duo of sitarist Paul Livingstone and cellist Pete Jacobson, aka Sangam, have a new album of the...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Njhyi
Hold onto the sides, and open your mind. NOK Cultural Ensemble come at you like a rhythmic juggernaut, fuelled by...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Mariage
The Wau Wau Collectif was formed by Karl-Jonas Winqvist from Sweden with an eclectic group of 20 Senegalese contributors after...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
