Reviews

Latopa

Àbájade

Latopa is the first full-length album by Àbájade, a Paris-based octet whose music primarily draws from Afro-Cuban stylistic traditions shaded...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Hagata

TEKE::TEKE

Montreal-based TEKE::TEKE began life as a tribute act to instrumental guitar legend Takeshi Terauchi before expanding their sound to take...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Praznina/Emptiness

Iztok Koren

Best known as a member of the Slovenian ‘imaginary folk’ band Širom, Iztok Koren is an experimental multi-instrumentalist who clearly...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Moriah Plaza

Moriah Plaza

Moriah Plaza co-founders Tamir Chen and Moosh Lahav trace the origin of their band's blend of Brazilian soul, Western jazz...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Macadam

schroothoop

The Belgian trio schroothoop make their own instruments, recycled from plastic, metal and wood. Their obsession is to construct shadow...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Scuru Cauru

Crimi

Scuru Cauru, Crimi's second album, kicks off with the bubbling of a water pipe and a vague background ditty suggestive...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Gojo

Fendika & K-Sanchis

For 14 years, the Fendika ensemble have represented the Addis Ababa azmaribet (traditional Ethiopian music-house) of the same name, serving...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Where Water Meets Water: Bird Songs & Lullabies

Sainkho Namtchylak

From Tuva via Moscow to Vienna, Sainkho here visits abandoned islands in the Venetian lagoon, improvising lyrical vocal lines, soft...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Mutations

Faizal Mostrixx

Ever since 2017's Tribal Match found its way onto Kampala's dancefloors, Faizal Mostrixx has been a driving force on Uganda's...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

The Sky is the Same Colour Everywhere

Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté

In recent years the kora has proven to be remarkably adaptable in duetting with non-African instruments. On The Sky is...

Reviewed in issue July/2023