Reviews
Başka Bahar
Over the last decade, there’s been a slew of European bands – often including a Turkish member – who’ve drawn...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2026
Spanish Dogs
It’s surprising that this brassy nine-piece outfit hails from Madrid, as from the opening ‘Batanga Caballero’ (underlined later by ‘Cocacho...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2026
Homage to Nazım Hikmet
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Poet, playwright and novelist Nazım Hikmet has cast a huge shadow over Turkish culture for a century. A pioneer of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022
In the Land of Cameroon
Put aside any preconceptions you might have about field recordings.This collection of tracks by amateur musicians and singers is highly...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2013
Reggae Dancer
There’s a long and proud tradition of Australian Aboriginal rock-reggae groups, from both remote desert regions and urban cities, that...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022
It Wasn’t Hard to Love You
Is this the last album we will hear from Fanfare Ciocarlia? The world’s foremost Balkan brass band are not retiring...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2021
Istanbul
Given that Frankfurt DJ and producer Shantel had already gone to his ancestral home in the old borderlands of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
From Kinshasa
When the much-lauded Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili imploded in early 2013, at the height of their global fame, that...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2015
Ambuya!
Piranha Records have delved into their archives, looked in the ‘1987’ box and recovered the record that started it all...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2021
