Reviews
Seiras
Finnish piano and harmonium virtuoso Timo Alakotila and the illustrious Tokyo-based accordionist Yuka Fujino unite in Seiras, a captivating blend...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: January/2025
The Reach
A debut album for the ages from Cardiff-based collective Afro Cluster, whose mission to ‘address the struggles facing individuals and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Jazz, Jazz, Jazz
Jazz? Well, not really. Funk and soul definitely, and more besides. This record by Sudanese band, the Scorpions with singer...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Hitsville Re-Visited
Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu
The cavalcade of 1970s and 80s African album reissues shows no signs of slowing. This one, originally released in 1982,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2019
Poetic Trance
Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa
Aziz Sahmaoui, Moroccan co-founder of the legendary Orchestre National de Barbès, is back for a third album with his group...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Wanga
Throes + The Shine's fiery electronic reconfigurations of kuduro – the popular Angolan dance music of the 1980s – are...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2016
One Blinding Dusky Dusk
Born out of a meeting of musical minds in an East London pub, this debut album is straight from the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2014
El Sentido del Aire
Flamenco guitarist Juan Carmona has created yet another beautiful and exciting disc, full of ideas and imagination. Carmona's way of...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: June/2010
Polyglot Pike
Now on their fifth album, Trio Mio have an impressive collection of awards from their previous releases. Swede Jens Ulvsand,...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: March/2019
Bulimundo/Djam Brancu Dja
Most readers will associate Cape Verde with the languid, melancholic mornas made famous by the great singer Cesaria Evora, or...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
