Reviews
ON – Live at the Jam Jar
A ‘topette’ is a shot of liquor. In Poitou-Charentes, where the band met, it means ‘Cheers!’. Topette!! is thus the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2024
New Ancient Strings
Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko
Reissued to mark the 25th anniversary of its 1999 release on Joe Boyd’s Hannibal label, New Ancient Strings remains a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024
Gjenskinn
Nils Økland has been at the heart of music-making in Norway for over 40 years. Rooted in Norway’s traditional violin...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2024
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High Above Harlesden [Box Set]
Creation Rebel are pioneers of the UK dub scene. Emerging from working-class London in the late 1970s, their music stepped...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2024
Cantano Gli Ucci
Mascarimirì like to say they were born in a Salento ‘not yet touristic’ and out of the union ‘between tradition...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024
La Negra – Tribute to Mercedes Sosa
Claudia Meyer’s fourth solo album is a tribute to Argentinian folk singer Mercedes Sosa, affectionately known as ‘La Negra’. Meyer’s...
Reviewed by Silvia Rothlisberger in issue: May/2024
Songs of My Land
A classical soprano with a decades-long career in early music, Chiyomi Yamada moved back to her native Japan in 2022,...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2024
Sun Without the Heat
New Orleans-based Leyla McCalla is known for making moving, socially conscious music that takes in all her various influences, from...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: May/2024
Flexūs
This album was apparently inspired by labyrinths, whether ‘imagined… astronomical… constructed… danced [or] natural …. and especially the mineral labyrinth...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2024
