Reviews
Nordic Reflections
Maimu Jõgeda is an Estonian now living in Helsinki, and Nordic Reflections is her third album. It features nine original...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2025
A Blade Because a Blade is Whole
Emerging from the UK’s experimental underground, DePlume’s Spotify statistics indicate that his concoction of poetry and jazz provides a taste...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2025
Chapter III: We Return to Light
We Return to Light is the conclusion of a triptych of instrumental mini-albums that has seen sitarist Anoushka Shankar explore...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2025
Vinde Todas
Carme López Fernández has been studying and working on gender roles in Galicia’s musical tradition. Vinde Todas, her debut album...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: February/March/2025
Amen Amwin
Promoted as an ‘exceptional collective of musicians electrifying the Indian Ocean,’ AyoZaad are dominated by the electronica of Italian-Australian DJ...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2025
Toña
Kadialy Kouyate is a superb kora player from Kolda in south Senegal. Now based in the UK, he's involved in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: September/2025
Fikira
Fikira sees the meeting of musical traditions both between and beyond the islands of Réunion and Mayotte, two French overseas...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: September/2025
Write It Down
The second album by self-described “New York-based rock and roll and rhythm and blues garage gospel band” Jackson and the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2025
