Reviews

Natura Sonora

El Búho

Though British, Robin Perkins emerged out of the Latin American downtempo scene of the early 2010s under the alias of...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Project Masnavi

Eishan Ensemble

Closely following their acclaimed albums Nim Dong (2018) and Afternoon Tea at Six (2020), Sydney-based Persian-jazz group Eishan Ensemble reconfigure...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Lumba

Tamala

The acoustic trio Tamala’s second album harvests a generous crop of 13 long songs, featuring Mola Sylla and Bao Sissoko...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Reclaim

Mishra

Home-recorded entirely live-in-the-room, in a farmhouse in Gloucestershire, Mishra’s new album sets out its stall via an eclectic musical fusion...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Olin Ennen

Barbora Xu

On her debut recording, Olin Ennen (which translates in Finnish to ‘I Was’), Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Barbora Xu explores...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

This Pale

Shujaat Husain Khan, Katayoun Goudarzi, Shaho Andalibi, Shariq Mustafa

Sufi music exists in various forms in different parts of the Islamic world with differing music and poetry in various...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

The Sound Braka

Stracho Temelkovski

Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Temelkovski, has recently brought out his first album, a captivating suite of soulful melodies, intoxicating rhythms and...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Kamana

Carlos Casas

Now here's an odd one. Carlos Casas is a Spanish-born filmmaker and artist whose work encompasses film, sound and visual...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

In Light of India

Alec Cooper

Edinburgh-based sitar player and ethnomusicologist Alec Cooper plays his cards well on his debut album In Light of India by...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

UMBRAL

Sofia Rei

Sofia Rei is an Argentinian singer, songwriter and producer whose fearless experimentation takes you to untold musical heights. Her fifth...

Reviewed in issue November/2021