Reviews
This is Broken Folk
Percussionist, tap dancer and performance artist Carli Jefferson toured internationally with the physical theatre group Stomp, before meeting non-binary singer...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
This is Frafra Power
This is Frafra Power is one of those rare treats of a compilation album that gives what by all accounts...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019
This Is Zologo Beat
From the home of kologo music in Ghana's Upper East Region, comes a new dance compilation innovated by one of...
Reviewed by Kirsty Osei-Bempong in issue: June/2023
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
The Strange One
A fiery fuzz guitar solo, reggaeton bridge, vocals switching between Spanish and English, searing violins and a constant hip-hop/cumbia beat...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2020
Somewhere is Here!
The cover of the CD shows our two heroes – jazz guitarist Oren Neiman and rock guitarist Gilad Ben Zvi...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Earth Is Begging
After a decade of being The KutiMangoes, in 2022, the Denmark-based band rebranded as Sunbörn, vowing to “bring people together”...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2025
God is Not a Terrorist
Produced by Ian Brennan, the US music enthusiast whose wanderings have brought us the Malawi Mouse Boys and other treasures,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
Til My Song Is Done
Emma Donovan | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks
When Australian Indigenous singer Emma Donovan was little, her mother regularly entered her in country music busking and talent competitions....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: August/2024
All You Need is Death
All You Need is Death is the first cinematic soundtrack from Lankum’s Ian Lynch. The film of the same name...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2024
