Reviews
The Louder the Better
The sixth studio album from Glasgow’s ‘Raggamuffin Queen’ is further proof that Soom T is a prolific singer-songwriter with a...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
bié Records meets Shika Shika
This collab between Beijing-based label bié and Latin America-focused label Shika Shika is an energising alternative to the well worn...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
There is Only Love and Fear
The composer, producer and percussionist Bex Burch has built a cult following on thinking outside the box, her leftfield smarts...
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Back to the Taverna
Cherry Bandora are a band from Berlin that revel in their cultural roots at the eastern end of the Mediterranean....
Reviewed in issue December/2023
Blackbird Returns
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of their 2013 album Blackbird, New Zealand Māori soul-dub-funk octet Fat Freddy’s Drop have put together...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Secret Museum of Mankind – Atlas of Instruments: Fiddles Volume 1
A curio and a labour of love, Fiddles Vol 1 is a compilation in the intriguingly-named Secret Museum of Mankind...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Somanti
The follow-up to 2020’s Vodou Alé opens with the Creole voices of Haitian vodou troupe Chouk Bwa echoing eerily between...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Drum Money
Leke Awoyinka, otherwise known as Ekiti Sound, is a singer-songwriter and producer who has moved between Lagos and the UK,...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Desert Drip
It’s maybe not a very usual response to music to think, ‘how clever!’, but cleverness is what comes to mind...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Afro Futuristic Dreams
Ever since the Strut label resurrected their career, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids have produced some of the most compelling...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
