Reviews
God Bless the USA
Originally from Mumbai and now based in San Jose, California, harmonica player and singer Aki Kumar – the ‘King of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2025
Sunshine Music
ALA.Ni is a west London-born, Paris-based singer, songwriter and composer of Grenadian heritage whose debut 2016 album You & I...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2025
Salta!
Salta!, the debut LP from Brussels-based trio Peixe e Limão, can hardly be said to start as it means to...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: October/2025
It Was Also Sometimes Daylight
Part scream, part slide whistle, the call of the curlew has been a thing of comfort for Orkney native Merlyn...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: December/2025
Ura Uku
Based in the Ecuadorian Andes, ‘neotraditional’ Jatun Mama, AKA producer Jesús Atzil Bonilla, reshapes the music of his native land...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: December/2025
To Those Who Have Gone, I Sing in a Key of D
Dantchev: Domain is a Helsinki-based quartet led by Bulgarian-Finnish singer and percussionist Anna Dantchev. She’s joined by Finnish musicians on...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2025
Inzovu Y’Imirindi
Recorded in late-80s Rwanda and self-released on cassette, Inzovu Y’Imirindi is a mesmerising rediscovery. Bizimungu Dieudonne and his wife, Agnes...
Reviewed by Joe Mulhall in issue: January/2026
Far Driven Sun
Bergamo-based Buck Curran spent ages tracking down a Stefan Sobell guitar he sold years back and has celebrated the reunion...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: January/2026
Where the Rain is Stored
Neda Mohamadpour, Mehdi Rostami, Isa Farah, Dhaivat Jani
Link Music Lab promotes Persian traditional music with experimental releases that explore fusions with other traditions and cross-cultural collaborations. In...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/2026
Moreïne/Déclives
It proves very difficult to tell what is electronic and what isn’t on La Tène’s cavernous and insistent new record,...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: January/2026
