Reviews
El Errante
On their latest album, Montréal’s El Balcón have delivered a dynamite collection of self-written songs seamlessly blending lead singer Valeria’s...
Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: June/2025
Nyron Higor
Higor’s first album, Fio de Lâmina, which came out at the end of 2022, was a warm, immersive, instrumental bath...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: June/2025
Oide Oide
Brain Damage x Emiko Ota x Mad Professor
Every track of this ’post dub’ album brings a smile to my face, even on repeated listenings! It is a...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: June/2025
Koyo
Zar Electrik are a trio from Marseille who deserve to become stars of the Afro-electro dance scene thanks to this...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2025
Improvisations from the Doyen of Kurdish Nay
Respected as a sideman of numerous Persian artists, Kurdish ney or nay (reed flute) virtuoso Shaho Andalibi presents his first...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2025
The Lone Wild Bird
Will Holshouser is an accordion player enjoying an eclectic career in New York, playing with, for instance, New York City...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2025
Room on the Porch
American blues giants Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ first collaborated eight years ago on an album called TajMo, their combined...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2025
Forefowk, Mind Me
Scots is one of three official languages north of the border, along with English and Gaelic, and it is in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2025
Cosmic Griots
Consistently funky and smile-inducing multi-diasporic Polish band The Afronauts channel the classic Afrobeat sound of Fela Kuti, the Ghanaian highlife...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: July/2025
