Reviews
2015–2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years Of Sonic Explorations
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Les Disques Bongo Joe has grown out of its Geneva record store home, prolifically devoted to the clankily retro-electronic side...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025
Les Nuits
This collaboration between the Anglo-Middle Eastern singer and Egyptian composer and multi-instrumentalist Samy Bishai emerged from a stage collaboration with...
Reviewed by Jim Cumming in issue: March/2014
Tatar Album
Karolina Cicha is one of Poland's most accomplished and interesting vocalists, not least for the choice of music she performs....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2017
Groovy Guzheng
The fluttering tones of the guzheng (Chinese zither) will be recognised as every lazy soundtrack composer's go-to sound for an...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Tell Me How You Feel
This, the second album by Hoth Brothers Band, is one among a gazillion projects that would have taken a different...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021
Ilana: The Creator
Saharan rock fans have good reason to be excited by this new release. From the raw and punchy opening number...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2019
Close Enough to Hear
With their previous two albums, 2017's Onwards and 2019's enchanting City on a Hill, the warmth, precision and virtuosity of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2023
Quicksand
The French producer Philippe Sanmiguel moved to Bamako 16 years ago and has since produced a raft of fine albums...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022
