Reviews

Hues of Imagination

Melisa Yıldırım & Swarupa Ananth

This is a remarkable duo of Anatolian fiddle with Indian tabla percussion. Melisa Yıldırım plays an Azeri-style bowed kamancha with...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Speech of Species

Echoes of Zoo

This follow-up to Belgian quartet Echoes Of Zoo's 2021 debut Breakout is, by all accounts, a concept album exploring the...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Catching Ghosts

Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas & Hamid Drake

Peter Brötzmann is a graduate of the 1960s free jazz movement, who plays saxophone clarinet and the Eastern European tárogató....

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Tora

GRAIU

Many have drawn the link between the blues of the American south and the ‘blues’ of the Balkans. GRAIU takes...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Kind of Folk, Vol 4 Iberia

Groupa

Norwegian drummer Terje Isungset is best-known for wowing the world with his ice music, but he's also part of the...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Naamu

Teun Creemers

For years, bass player Teun Creemers has played behind illustrious West African artists like Harouna Samake (Salif Keita’s kamelengoni player)...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Yeahno Yowouw Land

Langendorf United

Yeahno Yowouw Land is deep and earthy, and high and celestial; it's a land of swirling euphoria and wholesome, grounding...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

dragonchild

dragonchild

As leader for US group Debo Band, DA Mekonnen mined his ancestral heritage to deliver a spirited and tasteful update...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Mestizo

Mestizo

Steam Down's multi-instrumentalist composer, producer and founder Wayne Francis aka Ahnansé, together with Mambo Negro Records founder Daniel Michel have...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

A Beginner's Guide to Sublime Frequencies Vol One & Two

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Curated by Tim Smolens and Chris Bogen of experimental international outfit High Castle Teleorkestra, this rake through Sublime Frequencies’ esoteric...

Reviewed in issue June/2023