Reviews
I Too am a Stranger
The Sorcerers are not exactly prolific – this is their third album in nine years – but they are a...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2024
The Otium Mixtape
David Kiledjian is a producer/musician based in Lyon. This debut solo album puts us in touch with Lyon’s futurist electronic...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2024
Precious Collection
The London-based klezmer duo of cellist Francesca Ter-Berg and violinist Flora Curzon return with the follow-up to their 2019 debut...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2024
Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa
Now in his 80s, Taj Mahal is the grand old man of American roots music and follows 2022’s old-timey Get...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024
Engelchen
Alison Cotton’s Engelchen is both a threnody and celebration, heartfelt, intense and deeply moving in its struggle through darkness to...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2024
The Confluence
If there’s anything negative to say about Fela Kuti’s music in particular and Afrobeat in general it’s that it don’t...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2024
I am Kurdish
Sometimes moments of grace spring from conflict in a way that feels like the premise for a film or a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2024
Faire Ça
Meril Wubslin’s fourth album, born from a crossroads between Brussels and Lausanne, unfolds as a captivating sonic odyssey. Recorded at...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: May/2024
Aguidavi do Jêje
Slaves from present-day Nigeria, Benin and Togo brought Candomblé to Bahia (Brazil) where it thrived, developing into Afro-Brazilian ceremonies performed...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2024
Hiddo Dhawr
Sahra Halgan is a hero of Somaliland’s music. At home, in the unrecognised Somali state’s capital, Hargeisa, she runs the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2024
