Reviews

Wutiko

Élage Diouf

Heard on our recent Global Sounds From Québec CD (November 2021, #172), this is Élage’s third album since he moved...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2022

Doroja

Santiago Córdoba & The Bauls of Bengal

One of the most striking things about Baul music – a form of folk music from Bengal, South Asia – is its...

Reviewed by Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri in issue: March/2022

Tango Macondo

Paolo Fresu

Despite its name, Tango Macondo is not a tango record. It’s a soundscape of real and imaginary lands, born out...

Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: March/2022

Meridies

Go Dugong

Go Dugong, aka Milan-based Giulio Fonseca, is an Italian producer, DJ, sonic traveller soul and unrestrained mind, a notable personality...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2022

BAMANAN

Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee

On the surface of it, Irish-born, US-based stadium rock producer Jacknife Lee seems an improbable choice to helm the debut...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2022

Göç

Cihan Türkoğlu

Born in Turkey and currently residing in Athens, Cihan Türkoğlu is a lifelong practitioner of the Turkish folk lute bağlama...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2022

Magma

Black Flower

Taking inspiration from Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti, as well as traditional Western and Oriental music, this fourth album from...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: March/2022

Reclusive Rituals

Shay Hazan

In his first album for Batov Records, Tel Aviv-based jazz bassist Shay Hazan takes his sound in a different direction....

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2022

Ghoraba2

Ghoraba2

Rap music is, at present, the world’s musical lingua franca – it is the medium youth across the globe choose...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022

Sans Souci

Ruşan Filiztek

As a Kurdish musician, born in the south of Turkey, now resident in France, Ruşan Filiztek is celebrating the music...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2022