Reviews

Footsteps in the Snow

L'Attirail featuring Sidi Bémol

In true L'Attirail fashion, Footsteps in the Snow is a journey rooted in travel and storytelling. Here, sounds float in...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Making Tracks: 2019 Live Tour

VARIOUS ARTISTS

In rural Powys in 2019, Making Tracks gathered eight of the most exciting young roots musicians from across Europe and...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Orla

Caravela

London-based Afro-Brazilian sextet Caravela won plaudits for their eponymous 2017 EP, which showcased an often soothing, sometimes gritty blend of...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Kill Me or Negotiate

Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy

Egyptian vocalist and trumpeter Abdullah Miniawy and French electronicist Simo Cell have been collaborating for just over two years, tinkering...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

While I Sit and Watch This Tree

Lizabett Russo

Lizabett Russo is a cool, gently hypnotic singer whose songs drift effortlessly between folk and jazz, with echoes of her...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Çhâñt Électrónïqúe Vol 1

Chant Electronique

‘We are very, very curious,' this aptly named international seven-piece collective suggests – and what a curious album this is....

Reviewed in issue March/2021

We Are

Lucidvox

Rich, dark, romantic, apocalyptic, brooding… The swirling aural textures of this Russian quartet's debut album give rise to a surfeit...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Solarius Gamma

Ozferti

Florian Doucet is a producer, guitarist and graphic designer formerly of Afro-Colombian party starters La Chiva Gantiva, but his masked...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Samā'ī

Azmari

When Belgian six-piece Azmari get into that Ethio-groove, they go in hard. The immediately distinctive Ethiopian kignit scales possess horn...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Silent Voices

Ayla Schafer

Singer-songwriter Ayla Schafer plays spellbinding folk music infused with Latin mystique. Her captivating new album carries a profound message of...

Reviewed in issue March/2021