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Review of NIHT

NIHT

Sowulo

Season of Mist

Rating: ★★★

The night, mourning and ancient wisdom are among the dark themes of this meditative journey of the soul, a project...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2025

Review of Mischief In The Musitorium

Mischief In The Musitorium

Funkwrench Blues

Need To Know Music

Rating: ★★★★

Frank Swart is an American maverick. A bass player and producer, he has worked and played with blues, rock and...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025

Review of Maturity

Maturity

Nadir Ben

Joussour / InOuïe Distribution

Rating: ★★

French-Algerian singer-songwriter Nadir Ben describes his debut Maturity as a personal, poetic release in a Maghreb folk-pop style, and that’s...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: October/2025

Review of {*}

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Yaelllavie

Akuphone

Rating: ★★★

After having previously released an album of immersive improvised music with her trio Sharav, interdisciplinary composer and qanun player Yael...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025

Review of I remember I forget

I remember I forget

Yasmine Hamdan

Top of the World

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★★★★★

On her 2001 album as half of Beirut-based synth-pop duo Soapkills, Yasmine Hamdan captured the destruction and rebirth of her...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: October/2025

Review of Une Voix M’Apelle: The Modern Lebanese Sound Of The Voix De L’orient Label 1967–1984

Une Voix M’Apelle: The Modern Lebanese Sound Of The Voix De L’orient Label 1967–1984

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Now-Again Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Known as the ‘Switzerland of the Middle East’ during the 50s and 60s, Lebanon’s prosperous post-war economy saw its capital...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: October/2025

Review of Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Aïta Productions

Rating: ★★★★

The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2017

Review of Yobadi

Yobadi

Karim Ziad & Hamid El Kasri

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★

How can you justify subjecting the raw power of traditional Moroccan Gnawa music to a pernickety, pimple-picking, over-intellectualised version of...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Etike

Etike

Jeannot & Kelly

Prosmart

Rating: ★★★

Jeannot Bel is a UK-based Congolese guitarist who is a regular member of Kanda Bongo Man’s touring band. He recently...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of White Power Outage Vol 2

White Power Outage Vol 2

Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Rating: ★★★

The revolution will not be televised, nor will it be terribly organised if the Free Radicals are in charge. Active...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: August/September/2022

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