Reviews
An Introduction to John Tams
The seventh in Topic's Introducing series, this a welcome survey of John Tams' solo work alongside two prime cuts from...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Bush Lady
At last! The legendary and long out-of-print album Bush Lady, Alanis Obomsawin's first and only music recording, is getting the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Coro del Mundo
The first bar of ‘Dance to the Revolution’, which opens this album, is among the most surprising you're likely to...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Saz Power
Conceived by Demir Kerem Atay (who records under the name Elektro Hafiz), this compilation places the saz (lute) right in...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Life as Is
Themes of uncertainty and impermanence run deep throughout this album, itself a product of an unlikely chance encounter between Syrian...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
The Longest Day
Guitarist Toby Hay hails from near Rhayader on the Welsh border. Its atmosphere permeates his second instrumental album; it's dreamy,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Five Notes
Singer and instrumentalist Seby Ntege is based in London, and fronts a multicultural band. He's from East Uganda and specialises...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Deixaas
Mercedes Peon's exploratory lyricism, manic multi-instrumentalism, dynamic live shows, and even her punky cropped hair, have lent Galician folk an...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Desert Songs: Memories of Rumi
Born to a Turkish-Algerian father and an Austrian-Polish mother, adopted at birth by a Jewish family in North London and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
