Reviews
Breath / Ah / Aliento
In Breath, Persian singer Farnaz Ohadi makes the impossible seem easy, weaving two complex traditions, Persian classical music and Spanish...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2025
Orchestral Qawwali – Live at Birmingham City Hall
Rushil Ranjan & Abi Sampa with Ben Palmer & The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Combining Sufi (Islamic mystic) qawwali (devotional singing) with Western orchestral arrangements, the Orchestral Qawwali project has been making waves for...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: May/2025
Galgi
Gambian guitarist and bandleader Bai Janha’s storied career was so prolific that whole albums from his group Karantamba lingered unreleased...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/2025
Homeland (Chapter 1)
With his latest album, it is nice to see that kora player Seckou Keita continues to push boundaries. For Homeland...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: January/2025
Sotak
Now living in Lisbon and playing much of her music in Portugal and France, Karla Da Silva was born in...
Reviewed by Huw Hunnessy in issue: January/2025
Made It All Up
Sociograss formed in 2018 when guitarist and singer Tim Leslie of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, visited Edinburgh, Scotland, for the first time....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/2025
Cocinando
Vampisoul unlock a dozen more Peruvian tropical curios. Recorded between 1969 and 1971, the bandleader (a policeman using an assumed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2025
Super Disco Pirata
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Twenty-three sometimes bizarre, but often glorious cuts of mainly Colombian cumbia, assembled from pirated bootleg records, from the period 1965-80,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2025
Gbεfalɔi (Travellers)
Accra Quartet are a trio of Ghanaian players joined by an American, although the latter spends most of his musical...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/2025
Cowboy Sutra
In Cowboy Sutra, Hal Cannon, a specialist in early Utah folk music and a founding member of 3hattrio, mines the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025
