Reviews
Betwixt & Between 11
Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies
Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024
Lagon Nwar
Together with Valentin Ceccaldi (bass, cello) and Quentin Biardeau (saxophone), both musical improvisers, composers and producers, and Marcel Balboné (Burkinabé...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: June/2025
Don’t Call Me Baby
Born to Haitian parents in New York and now a proud resident of the Big Easy, McCalla brings a bewildering...
Reviewed by Paul Slade in issue: February/March/2026
Rovira 100
Sonico is the only ensemble in the world dedicated to the music of Eduardo Rovira. The bandoneonist was one of...
Reviewed by Gabriel Cócaro in issue: February/March/2026
The Brickfields
This fourth studio album from the British folk trio is one of many albums born out of the pandemic that...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2021
West
The Scottish harpist and singer – one quarter of the acclaimed Furrow Collective, and winner of the 2017 BBC Radio...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2018
Ela Partíu
Laíz & The New Love Experience
Laíz is a 24-year-old Brazilian rapper who settled in Berlin at 18. Ela Partíu features 20 musicians from countries including...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2024
Daydreaming
María López is a musical prodigy. She comes from Galicia, on the Atlantic coast of northwest Spain, and although she...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2025
Animism
When Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq was awarded the prestigious Polaris Prize (Canada's equivalent to the Mercury Prize) this October...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
