Reviews

Miss Colombia

Lido Pimienta

Lido Pimienta calls her third album ‘a cynical love letter’ to her home country and the Colombian people. Based in...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2020

Mirador

Fierce Flowers

The English-language tracks of this album are fine, and will be thoroughly enjoyed by any fans of Po'Girl or First...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2020

Live in Lesotho

Hugh Masekela & Company

In December 1980 the African businessman Victor Maloi arranged a concert for Masekela and Miriam Makeba in Lesotho, a country...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020

God is a Drummer

Trilok Gurtu

‘Without the drummer, nothing will move. And without movement, the world will stop,’ says Trilok Gurtu, explaining the title of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020

Mielo

Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström

It's hard to get beyond the first track ‘Erämorsian’ (Wildwood Bride). I play it again and again, caught up in...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2020

Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)

Eliza Carthy and Ben Seal

A seagull's head on dancer's legs – not at all disturbing or Hieronymous Bosch-like – is artist Kirsty Whiten's cover...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020

Nemo

Kadialy Kouyate

Kadialy Kouyate is a Longtime London-based kora player. A maestro of the West African 21-string harp-Lute, he is also a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2020

Alo

Ajate

The second album from the Japanese ten-piece Ajate is full of surprises as leader John Imaeda and his group provide...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2020

Say It

Dantchev:Domain

You can imagine a film to go with this album: vast, sweeping landscapes, travellers in the mist, and among these...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2020

Kistvaen

Calan

The title of the fifth album from one of Wales’ most talked about folk bands means ‘Burial Chamber’ and is...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2020