Reviews
Nykomlingen
This CD contains so much that is unexpected and surprising. It feels as though the band is on a journey...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017
Kelmti Horra
Is this the sound of post-revolutionary Tunisia? Perhaps. Certainly it is a self-assured, outward-looking and proudly individual debut from a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Débruit & Istanbul
Parisian producer Xavier Thomas, aka Débruit, burst onto the scene with his debut album From the Horizon in 2012. This...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2016
Twisted Sage
Kenny Kosek with Tony Trischka
Here’s a recipe for a great old-time fiddle and banjo album: first, learn a bunch of tunes as a teenager...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024
More Big Musik from Over There!
Even though the title is pretty terrible, there’s an elegant charm about this Sheffield-based collective’s debut that’s missing from many...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
L'Odyssey
This excellent debut album from Middle Eastern/Caribbean duo Vocal Global qualifies as true world music in every sense. Israeli Noga...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2017
3
There's no sign of The Gloaming losing that special touch on their third studio album, which opens with an intense...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019
Harmonizing Soweto: Golden Gospel & Kasi Soul from the new South Africa
Diepkloof and its neighbour, Meadowlands, were created as new zones in Soweto in the late 50s to accommodate those forcibly...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023
Upopo Sanke
This posthumous release was recorded in 2003, on a farm in the Tokachi district of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: November/2023
