Reviews
Sentimento Popolare
Camilla Barbarito's musical journey is a rich and meandering one: as a young girl she spent time in Mali, and...
Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: April/2019
Temporal Waves
Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky has performed and recorded across many genres for the past 25 years, but this is...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/2024
Har Dam Sahara
Rafiki Jazz are a Sheffield-based band whose mission statement is to ‘create music that crosses cultural boundaries.’ Thankfully the results...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017
La Belleza
This ambitious record from singer Pimienta, originally from the Colombian Caribbean and now living in Canada, stems from her desire...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: August/2025
500 Years of Night
Hailing from the Chiapas region of Mexico but based in Toronto, Canada, Quique Escamilla might represent a modern version of...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: March/2015
Guasá, Cununo y Marimba: Afro-Colombian Music from the Pacific Coast
Afro-Colombian music has long been overlooked – largely down to an institutional and classist bias that, it has to be...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020
Apparitions
A significant change of tack from the Drystones' last album, Apparitions really showcases the multi-instrumental talents of this exciting young...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2019
No Food Without Taste If By Hunger
Following Edo Funk Explosion Vol 1, which featured three Benin City groups, we are now treated to an album by...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2023
Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa
Sweet as Broken Dates is a collection of Somali-language pop recorded in Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti from the 1960s right...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2017
