Reviews
Chicken & Egg
The 13th studio album from one of contemporary America's most prolific, adventurous and adaptable folk/country musicians, Chicken & Egg is...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010
Sounds of Peace
The revered Manu Dibango died three years after making M&M in 2017 with the Mozambican saxophonist, Moreira Chonguiça. Echoes of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2023
You Are Free
Perhaps best known as one third of the mighty Talisk, Graeme Armstrong’s debut solo album presents the singer-songwriter as a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2022
Titina Canta B Leza
With reissues of long-deleted Cape Verdean albums being about as rare as Cape Verdean cloud bursts, Astral Music in conjunction...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Walsh & Pound
In these uninspiring times, in which Autotune software retains a strange stranglehold over popular music, Walsh & Pound might seem...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Ronald Mesquita
Like many Brazilian albums of this generation, it's evident that this self-titled release by Brazilian drummer Ronald Mesquita relies on...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: May/2019
Mara
LA-based Aditya Prakash began his training in Karnatic singing when he was eight years old, and he has since toured...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: November/2016
Fase Dos
This son of musical parents “wanted to be a Puerto Rican version” of Lenny Kravitz in his early teens. Instead,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
MinYo Songbook Vol 1
Many cultures around the world have taken forms of their own folk songs and reinterpreted them in a more mainstream...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: May/2023
Anadolu Ejderi
Whereas earlier albums had more to do with retro-futurism, on Anadolu Ejderi (Anatolian Dragons) past and present collide beguilingly as...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/February/2023
