Reviews

Geminus

Kane Mathis

In a way you could say Mathis spent more than 20 years making this album – even though he eventually...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Kôrôlén

Toumani Diabaté and the London Symphony Orchestra

Anyone who saw one of the symphonic concerts Toumani Diabate gave with three different orchestras in 2008 will have been...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Tamam Morning

Toine Thys Overseas

Belgian saxophonist Thys has assembled a beautifully balanced quintet for an uplifting fusion of European jazz and Middle-Eastern modes. The...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Mezclatotäl

Komasi

The one thing you cannot accuse Komasi of is a lack of ambition. Respectively from France, Burkina Faso and Chile,...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Penya

Penya

Genre-massaging London trio Penya have been making waves for a while now, most especially in the youthful, club-leaning universe populated...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Bamako Moon

Invisible System

So-called reality is warped on Bamako Moon, as Dan Harper, otherwise known as Invisible System, reconfigures core material from his...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Nduggu

Rafiki Jazz

Rafiki Jazz have carved out a reputation for their beautifully fluid mixing of musical traditions that always sounds natural, never...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

A Gathering of Strangers 2021

Transglobal Underground & Our European Friends

A Gathering of Strangers first saw light in 2010 when it was released by a pan-EU collective headed by dubtronic...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Chouf!

Sidi Bémol

Now this looks promising. An Algerian rock album recorded at the Real World studios in Wiltshire with the great Justin...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Serenin: From the Black Sea to the Ligurian Sea

CABIT

Despite appearances this is not a generic fusion but a bridge between specific traditions soundly based on historical and environmental...

Reviewed in issue April/2021