Reviews
Dakan
As opening statements go, you can’t get much more gloriously emphatic than ‘Diyanye Ko’ which kicks off the fourth album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
There Is Beauty, There Already
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album is a singular experiment in slow listening and percussive potential. It emerges alongside...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025
The Kasambwe Brothers
In 2024, The Kasambwe Brothers made their first trip out of Malawi, taking their street music from the township of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2026
La Noche
Radio Tarifa were one of the great Spanish bands of the 90s, their blend of Spanish, North African and medieval...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2026
Nexus
Iranian percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi is a master of traditional Persian instruments, the tombak (a goblet drum) and the daf...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/2026
Small Room In Dakar
Multi-instrumentalist Ben Aylon has long been inspired by the music of Senegal. Studying for over a decade with the sabar...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/2026
Dreaming In Gamelan
This Canadian venture follows a long line of music that has been inspired by the Indonesian gamelan, but has moved...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/2026
Rituals
Mariama Ndure is a Norwegian artist born to Gambian parents, and a jazz-loving Berklee College of Music graduate who has...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/2026
Radio Zodiak
Intercontinental musical collective Owls Are Not brings together musicians from Poland, Malawi and Tanzania in the name of intrepid sonic...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: January/2026
