Reviews
Future Rust Vol 1
New label Future Rust offers this compilation as an immersion into the subculture of the handpan, commonly called hang. The...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Black Atlantica Edits
Daniel Haaksman sees himself as somewhat of an auteur when it comes to music from across the globe. The Berlin-based...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Spiders Tango
Kuljit Bhamra & Davide Giovannini (featuring The Villiers Quartet)
Kuljit Bhamra's quicksilver innovative, virtuosic talent is well known, well respected and very much enjoyed by tabla afficionados, percussionists and...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers
For this release, four musicians from Maastricht, the Netherlands get together and jam, playing disco, funk and rock filtered through...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Insides Revealed
Insides Revealed, the debut album by Taiwanese indigenous singer Sauljaljui, takes inspiration from her Paiwan tribal roots, and combines traditional...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
El Camino de Los Vientos
French-born agronomist Matthieu Saglio traded soil and crops for the sweetly sorrowful sound of the cello when he moved to...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Alambari
At first glance there is something suspiciously ‘arty’ about DakhaBrakha. Attired in exaggerated folk costumes and oversize black lamb-fur head-gear...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
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Maghreb K7 Club: Synth Raï, Chaoui & Staifi (1985-1997)
This compilation is a microcosm of Lyon's Maghreb music scene between 1985-1997. Most of the scene in the said city...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Palaces
Electric Vocuhila, a French quartet founded ten years ago in Berlin as part of a musicians’ co-operative, display an impressive...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
