Reviews
A Gathering of Strangers 2021
Transglobal Underground & Our European Friends
A Gathering of Strangers first saw light in 2010 when it was released by a pan-EU collective headed by dubtronic...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
Old Tunes, Dusted Down
It wouldn’t be everyone's idea of a fantastic surprise birthday present. But the Belgian mandolin player Andries Boone is a...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: October/2014
Dead of Night
The renowned master of Moroccan Gnawa music, Mahmoud Guinia, died in 2015; this album by his son Houssam serves as...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2024
La Increíble Historia de un Hombre Bueno
DePedro is the nom do guorro of Spanish guitarist and singer Jairo Zavala, an experienced sideman and session musician with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2013
Coup of Gods
Yet again risking imprisonment in his native Iran for releasing this album, Mehdi Rajabian’s latest effort showcases Persian tonalities, a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022
Since Time is Gravity
The American composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams has long described his experimental Natural Information Society ensemble as an exercise in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2023
Zouzou
After a quarter of a century living in France, Gnahoré recently returned to Cote d’Ivoire with two objectives. The first...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2024
Uhamiaji
When a press release states that an album will redefine the boundaries of whatever style it purports to represent, you...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2017
Homage to Nazım Hikmet
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Poet, playwright and novelist Nazım Hikmet has cast a huge shadow over Turkish culture for a century. A pioneer of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022
