Reviews

Z’amalgame

Force Indigène

In name, Z’amalgame suggests a coming-together, a melding of components and forces into a new, fortified whole. This Réunionese album,...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

QAF

Ghawgha

This record gives voice to the stories and sentiments of the dislocated. Ghawgha fled her native Afghanistan, undertaking an odyssey...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Echoes of Resistance

Raz & Afla

Has it really been two years since the release of Raz & Afla’s The Cycle? It must be, because here’s...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Mapambazuko

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta

Nyege Nyege are known for avant-garde releases. This record is no different. Titi Bakorta and Ale Hop join forces to...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

A Assembleia Extraordinária

Rod Krieger

Rock gaúcho, rock from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, always had a penchant for the music of the British invasion....

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Gbεfalɔi (Travellers)

Accra Quartet

Accra Quartet are a trio of Ghanaian players joined by an American, although the latter spends most of his musical...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Bu Bir Demdir

Aylin’s Soulgarden

Alevi-German singer Aylin Yıldırım and her band of Augsburg-based musicians on saz, guitar, drums, bass and keys perform a selection...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Jouer

Annarella & Django

Here’s an easy-going fusion set, in which a Swedish jazz flautist teams up with a Malian ngoni player for a...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Zoom Zemmatt

Mangane

Senegalese singer and guitarist Mangane is somewhat of a late bloomer. At age 60, Zoom Zemmatt is his first release...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Keeping Company

Bill Laurance & Michael League

It’s nice to see Laurance and League are still stepping away from their Snarky Puppy duties for this more introspective...

Reviewed in issue January/2025