Reviews
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Timo Alakolita & Johanna Juhola Duo
It's sixteen years since this duo's last album. At that point Alakotila was one of the key figures on the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2023
Samba em Kigali
Following 2022's well-streamed Voyage, the Belgian duo of rapper and lyricist Alessandro ‘Le Tagarel’ Vlerick and producer and composer Simon...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2023
Club Coco ¡AHORA! The Latin Sound of Now
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
A follow-up to 2021's Club Coco, this compilation by Mexican DJ Coco María showcases contemporary Afro-Latin sounds by home-based and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: August/September/2023
Classical Music of Central Asia
Munojat Yulchieva, now in her early 60s, is probably the most recognised vocalist in Uzbek traditional music. She's got a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2023
reTORNAR
If you worry that a voice and a double bass might be too frugal fare, no need. Catalan singer, Magalí...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2023
Colours of the Night
The third album from the sacred Sufi trance music of the Moroccan Gnawa people is one of the great traditions...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2023
Yebo! Rare Mzansi Party Beats from Apartheid's Dying Years
Mzansi is a Xhosa word meaning south and in the 1980s became shorthand slang in the townships for South Africa...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2023
