Reviews
Awakening the Fire
Navajo flautist R Carlos Nakai's ethereal tone has won him a huge following and has introduced Native American flute music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Sound the People
Brooklyn-based Red Baraat are an international, bhangra-infused version of the brass bands that accompany Indian weddings and festivals. Their latest...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018
The Vortex Sessions
Benjamim Taubkin & Adriano Adewale
For the past decade and a half, Benjamim Taubkin's São Paulo-based Núcleo Contemporàneo label has been quietly nurturing some of...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2013
Across the Field
Across the Field has an appealingly ramshackle, rough-edged, home-made quality across its seven tracks. There is a refreshingly quirky and...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2019
The New Faith
Following his impressive 2020 debut album, Spider Tales (reviewed in October 2020, #161), The New Faith fulfils the promise of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022
The Real Revolution
It’s 20 years since the American filmmakers Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke founded Playing for Change, hitting the streets with...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
The Resonance Between
Alam Khan, Arjun K Verma, Jack Perla & Del Sol Quartet
While there are countless East-West fusions out there, there are few that sound as effortlessly meant to be as this...
Reviewed by Alexndra Petropoulos in issue: December/2023
The Otium Mixtape
David Kiledjian is a producer/musician based in Lyon. This debut solo album puts us in touch with Lyon’s futurist electronic...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2024
After the Morning
Wyndham Baird’s music lives at the intersection of witting imitation, authentic reinterpretation and inspired creation. He sings like his (mostly)...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
Wake the Dead
San-Franciscan Chuck Prophet teams up with cumbia urbana group ¿Qiensave? from California with roots in Michoacán, Mexico, on Wake the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2024
