Reviews

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

Across the Universe

Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is a one-off in India, a writer, intellectual and composer who says things like “I don't see any...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Timeline

Suarasama

Suarasama, which means ‘one voice’, is a small ensemble of musicians and ethnomusicologists from North Sumatra. Formed in 1995 by...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Trois

Acid Arab

There's an essential difference between listening to Rachid Taha or Khaled and Acid Arab. These ten tracks are not songs...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Mentallogenic

Alex Figueira

The Amsterdam-based Venezuelan-Portuguese producer, musical auteur and DJ Alex Figueira had a stint playing percussion for Altın Gün and certainly...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Since Time is Gravity

Natural Information Society

The American composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams has long described his experimental Natural Information Society ensemble as an exercise in...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Sonido Lava

Daniel Haaksman

Adding a Berlin sheen to Latin America's electric rhythms, DJ-producer Daniel Haaksman returns with his fourth full-length release, Sonido Lava....

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Davorio

Samuele Strufaldi

In 2019 the Italian composer and jazz musician Samuele Strufaldi was invited by djembé player Boris Pierrou to visit his...

Reviewed in issue June/2023