Reviews
Dancing with Love
Mezzo soprano Afarin Mansouri left Iran for Ontario in 2003 after growing up in the post-revolutionary environment that allowed her...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2024
Mount Matsu
Dutch group YĪN YĪN’s third album is a joyous concoction of surf guitar, retro synth and East Asian influence. The...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2024
Where the River Bends is Only the Beginning
This is the 12th volume in ten years in Glitterbeat’s Hidden Musics series, all recorded by Ian Brennan in his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2024
Las Formas del Agua
Blanca Altable, a Burgos-born violinist and composer, unveils her talent for conjuring vivid imagery on her second solo album, Las...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2024
Basta!
Southern Italian trance, anyone? If you’ve had enough of the same old sounds, try Basta! (pun intended). Giuliano Gabriele is...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2024
1325 Ibn Battutah
Following a near 14-year break, Syriana return with their first full-length album since 2010’s acclaimed debut The Road to Damascus....
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2024
Mburu
Raffit is a French composer and jazz and blues guitarist who 15 years ago founded the Chambre d’Hôte Orchestra. One...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2024
Bin Dilde
‘Flower Taxi’ in English, present their second album, which means ‘in a thousand languages.’ Singer Selin Dettwiler, of Turkish-Kurdish background...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2024
Amghar: The Godfather of Tuareg Music – Vol One
The style of Touareg guitar music known to the world as ‘desert blues’ and to the musicians themselves as assouf...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024
