Reviews
Grietas
Celebrating 15 years since their formation in Santiago, Newen Afrobeat present Grietas, their dynamic fifth studio album. Enriched by a...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: June/2024
Tu Gulî
Olcay Bayir is a British/Kurdish-Alevi singer-songwriter who sings in Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian, and Tu Gulî is her third album,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2024
Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm
It wouldn’t be exaggerating to call singer/guitarist Eric Bibb, son of activist, actor and folk singer, Leon Bibb, now five...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2024
Africatown, AL Ancestor Sounds
After all Ian Brennan’s field recordings of mostly non-professional musicians and singers recorded around the world from Rwanda to Romania...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves
Jembaa Groove’s 2022 debut album was a highlife highlight (a Top of the World in #177). The Berlin-based group elegantly...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2024
Les Secrets du Ciel
Yann Falquet is best-known as the singer and guitarist who co-founded the award-winning Québécois folk trio Genticorum, celebrated for their...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
All About the Bones
American folk and blues singer Chris Smither marks his upcoming 80th birthday with All About the Bones, a moody and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024
PsychoTropical
Guayabo is Colombian slang for hungover, but it can also mean nostalgia for your homeland, the famous saudade in Portuguese,...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: June/2024
Africa Yontii
This is the second instrumental album for Sahel Sounds by the Senegalese guitarist from Baaba Maal’s home town of Podor...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
