Reviews
Chouf!
Now this looks promising. An Algerian rock album recorded at the Real World studios in Wiltshire with the great Justin...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2021
Live at the Old Fruitmarket
Live at the Old Fruitmarket marks an incredible ten years for the band, a decade that has seen many changes...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020
Al Nge Taa
Jan Galega Brönnimann, Moussa Cissokho & Omri Hason
The Swiss woodwind player Jan Galega Brönnimann plays some of the lowest clarinet you’re ever likely to experience – on...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016
Dreamers
Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider
The names dropped on the lyric sheet of this classy crossover album constitute a lofty constellation of Ibero-American idealism: Octavio...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2019
Travelers
Three years ago, the Brooklyn-based artist collective Found Sound Nation and the US embassy in Islamabad collaborated to launch the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2017
Orion Congregation
Ahmed Ag Kaedy is perhaps best known as one of the four musicians featured in Mali Blues, a documentary examining...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018
Douce Errance
Now resident in France, where he is best known as a film and TV actor, the Japanese-born Kengo Saito is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2025
Cool Down the Heat
Junior Murvin became reggae’s falsetto voice of choice with his 1976 hit ‘Police and Thieves’, a song whose popularity in...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: December/2025
Goldenwings
In #197, I reviewed a reissue of Opa’s abortive first album. With Airto Moreira, the Uruguayan Fattoruso brothers re-recorded for...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024
