Reviews
Un Nuevo Amanecer
Pedro Ricardo & Damián Botigué
A debut collaboration from Spain that fuses tradition with modern ‘broken beat’ Latin music. Pedro Ricardo, originally from Portugal, and...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Like a River
Muito Kaballa are a nine-piece collective based in Cologne, Germany, that formed in 2019; now, just a few years on,...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Soul & Science
Nickodemus is a New York DJ whose global success has come through mixing house, hip-hop and disco with different sounds...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
A Trip to Bolgatanga
‘A bad attitude is like a flat tire / You can't go anywhere until you change it,’ declares King Ayisoba...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
Hamt Zamin Hümüs
The morin khuur or two-stringed horsehead fiddle is pretty much the only traditional Mongolian instrument on Hamt Zamin Hümüs. NaraBara...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
Breathe in Love
Electric Sufi's debut is a dense thicket of influences and personalities, bringing together Manchester-based singer of Kashmiri heritage, Sarah Yaseen,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
On the Path of the Shirazis
This album is aimed squarely at festival dance music tents and clubs. Afro-Electric DJ ARASHKHA (Arash Khalatbari) is a man...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
Lo-Life!
Immy Owusu has an intriguing history. His grandfather is the veteran Ghanaian palmwine music hero Koo Nimo, his father, Kojo...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
XIV – A Integração
XIV – A Integração is a wonderfully untidy, uneven pile of ideas, mysticism and sacred touchstones, electro-acoustics and real sound,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
Soul Song
Yosef-Gutman Levitt & Lionel Loueke
South African Yosef-Gutman Levitt grew up listening to American jazz fusion, took up bass guitar and won a scholarship to...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2023
