Reviews
The Rough Guide to Urban Mali
This is the music you hear all around the Malian capital, Bamako: in shops, in taxis, in trendy bars, in...
Reviewed by Bram Posthumus in issue: December/2020
América Invertida
Inspired by a famous drawing by Joaquín Torres García portraying South America upside down, this compilation centres on tiny, overlooked...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
Fool's Gold
After Vampire Weekend, bring on Fool's Good, America's latest indie rockers to mine African music in search of fresh inspiration....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2010
Kagabas
Just when you weren’t waiting for a steaming chiva bus up to the mountains of the Colombian coast, along come...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2021
Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony
The project Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony consists of a double album and book. Several electronic artists were commissioned to create...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: January/February/2022
Chaal Baby
Hailing from überchic Brooklyn in the melting pot of New York City, Red Baraat have a studied multi-ethnic cool reminiscent...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2010
Galiza
Kepa Junkera is a wonderful player of trikitixa, the traditional dance music of the Basque country, which he squeezes out...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2014
Turlku 4: New Music from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands
An outback project developed in Australia’s Western Desert, (a sparsely populated region with hundreds of kilometres between remote Aboriginal communities),...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2011
Finca Santa Elena
Arturo Jorge y El Cuarteto Tradición
Though Arturo Jorge was born in 1963, Finca Santa Elena is his debut album. Born in San Rafael, in eastern...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
