Reviews
No Rastro de Catarina
Cátia de França is a singer and songwriter from João Pessoa, Paraíba, a city in the northwest of Brazil, which...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: August/2024
Culla e Tempesta
Culla e Tempesta (Cradle and Storm) is a spectacular new album by the female vocal quartet from Apulia. Formed in...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: August/2024
Synthetic Hearts Part II
Last year I gave Synthetic Hearts by Asanda Lusaseni Mvana (aka Msaki) and Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, four stars – and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2024
Harpedåm
Tone Hulbækmo holds a unique place in Norwegian music. A singer and a devotee of Norway’s more unusual instruments, especially...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2025
The Warmth You Deserve
Stranded Horse with Boubacar Cissokho
Stranded Horse – real name Yann Tambour – is a French musical adventurer whose journey has taken him from the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2025
L’Âge d’Or
One of the key Western artistic concerns of the 19th century was the positioning of poets as spiritual leaders, equal...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: April/2025
Amane
The Moroccan-French three-piece here deliver a well-crafted desert blues collection with strong 70s and 80s rock influences. The group work...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: April/2025
Al-hambra
Ahmed Mukhtar & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde
Baghdad-born Ahmed Mukhtar studied oud and Western percussion in London. On this album, inspired by a visit to Granada’s Alhambra...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
What Pop People Folk This Popular
The most bravely inventive folk band in Australia is moving on. Famed for their re-working of self-described ‘darker, stranger’ traditional...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
