Reviews

Gakondo

The Mighty Popo

This is the fifth album from Canada-based Jacques ‘Popo’ Muri-gande, a singer and guitarist from Rwanda born in a Burundian...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012

Ilo Veyou

Camille

Le Fil was a quirky yet sophisticated collection of finely wrought songs. Its follow-up, Music Hole, tended to push the...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Viva el Sábado: Hits de Disco Pop Peruano (1978-1989)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

When musical influences from two distinct cultural regions merge, the results are almost always fascinating, and that’s certainly the case...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2023

Resiste

Eljuri

This is the fourth solo album from New York-based, Ecuadorian-born Cecilia Villar Eljuri. The lyrics are predominantly Spanish on the...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2019

Revelation

The Khoury Project

One of the less comfortable truths for fans of Middle Eastern music in the West is that most CDs released...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2015

Songs from Aulejas

Tautumeitas

This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

Maidin Domhnaigh

Seamas Hyland

Seamas Hyland left those rapscallions, The Mary Wallopers, last year. His first solo album, Maidin Domhnaigh (Sunday Morning) reveals his...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/2024

Bu Bir Demdir

Aylin’s Soulgarden

Alevi-German singer Aylin Yıldırım and her band of Augsburg-based musicians on saz, guitar, drums, bass and keys perform a selection...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/2025

Betwixt & Between 11

Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies

Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024

Lagon Nwar

LAGON NWAR

Together with Valentin Ceccaldi (bass, cello) and Quentin Biardeau (saxophone), both musical improvisers, composers and producers, and Marcel Balboné (Burkinabé...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: June/2025