Reviews
Millions of Us
Ten tracks into Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness’ (BCUC) Millions of Us, there's a message from Jovi Nkosi to producer Sam...
Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: July/2023
Anarchist Gospel
The title of Sunny War's fourth album, Anarchist Gospel, gets to the bones of the singer-songwriter's guerilla art. Until recently,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2023
Octophilia
KermesZ à l’Est are extraordinary mash-up merchants. Their name is invented to sound Eastern European and the eight-piece Belgian band...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2023
Bring It On
Estonia's folk music is noted for its lyrical richness and depth of local and national feeling, rather than for highly...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2023
Taa! – Our Language May Be Dying, But Our Voices Remain (Botswana)
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
A project from Hidden Musics, an international music series of field-recorded albums produced by award-winning music producer Ian Brennan and...
Reviewed by Hillary Palesa Morusi in issue: August/September/2023
Substrat
Guillem Ballaz is a musician and musical historian who has set out to explore and revitalise the Catalan folk songs...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/September/2023
Stretching Skyward
Gnoss (like Talisk, Eriska and TRIP) are part of Glasgow's lively music scene, though the band originated in Scotland's Northern...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: August/September/2023
On the Path of the Shirazis
This album is aimed squarely at festival dance music tents and clubs. Afro-Electric DJ ARASHKHA (Arash Khalatbari) is a man...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: August/September/2023
Lost & Found
Nick Beggs has a career extending back to the high point of early 80s New Romantic pop, and the band...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2023
