Reviews
Luminescent Creatures
Following the international success of her 2020 album Windswept Adan, Japanese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ichiko Aoba returns with a spiritual...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2025
Guitari Baro
It’s always good to welcome a new label specialising in the kind of music Songlines covers and Chrysalis Global gets...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025
Nuevos Ríos
Nuevos Ríos (‘New Rivers’) blends the Afro-Pacific sounds of Colombian group Canalón de Timbiquí, led by vocalist Nidia Góngora, with...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2026
Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba
Born in the US to immigrant parents from Rwanda and Uganda, Somi Kakoma is not only a Grammy-nominated jazz singer...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022
1000 Watts
Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno
On his latest release Quantic returns to the Flowering Inferno moniker he used for his 2010 album Dog With a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
In Mumbai
Equally at home in both the trad and jazz worlds, saxophonist, piper and whistler Fraser Fifield is one of those...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020
Kebrada
Elida Almeida is a 24-year-old Cape Verdean singer, who made a strong impression with her 2015 debut album, Ora Doci,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2017
Chants of India
Ravi Shankar | Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
HariSongs is a new label set up to re-release some of the music in the family archive of the late...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Assaf
Sometimes an artist's story overshadows almost entirely their actual music. Such is the case here, where Mohammed Assaf has become...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
Motel Llamado Mentira
With a background in burlesque and theatre, the Spanish singer known as Vinila von Bismark uses music as a very...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
