Reviews
Shiraz
Dedicated to his wife, filmmaker Shiraz Fradi, the latest album by Tunisian oud virtuoso and bandleader Dhafer Youssef is the...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: January/2026
Bring Summer
A range of musical styles blow through this pleasing album by this British five-piece – folk, soul-jazz, highlife, disco, rock,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2026
Afro Baroque
This is a remarkable collaboration between two great, yet very different, musicians. Yakir Arbib, who the press have called “the...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2026
Live at WOMAD 2023
The highlights at WOMAD 2023 included Mokoomba, the many appearances by Justin Adams, and a commanding afternoon set in the...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: February/March/2026
Krope
There are three key elements to this environmental journey of an album. This Belarusian sound-shaper, from Minsk, captures carefully placed...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: February/March/2026
Jardin d’ailleurs
Gaëlle Bagot & Juan Manuel Nieto
The piano-clarinet duet format, with vocals sung mainly in French, would not be my first choice, but this new release...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: February/March/2026
True Picture
With True Picture, Hungarian folk singer and double bassist Veronika Varga offers a strikingly intimate debut – an album that...
Reviewed by Ula Nowak in issue: February/March/2026
KABEAUSHÉ PRESENTS: I.S.U.I.L.P
The third full-length from Kabochi Gitau aka KABEAUSHÉ finds the Nairobi-born, Berlin-based artist back in full world-building form. I.S.U.I.L.P introduces...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: February/March/2026
