Reviews
Le Dernier Empereur Bantou
Pierre Kwenders’ first full-length project is an electro-fused delight. Kwenders currently resides in Montreal but has Congolese heritage and his...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2016
Music for the Hawaiian Islands Vol 3: Pi’ilani Maui
The third volume of Kuana Torres Kahele's six-part CD series celebrating the musical spirit of individual Hawaiian Islands continues the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan	 in issue: July/2015
Night Reign
Aftab’s 2021 album Vulture Prince transcended art music obscurity to enjoy blanket broadsheet coverage. It won the Pakistani-American artist a...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/2024
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
In terms of guitar and kora duos, it’s hard to think much beyond the inspired collaboration of Toumani Diabaté and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2024
Roda Amaranta
Saveria Margiola & Mikis TheodOrakis
Composer-conductor Mikis Theodorakis, aged 95 this July, is a Greek national institution. While classically trained, since 1958 his compositions and...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: October/2020
Banzeiro
Find yourself some wiggle room: Dona Onete is back with another dose of salubrious grooves from the north of Brazil....
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2017
Djamila
Here's a second album from Mamadou Kelly, a guitarist and singer from the Malian area of Goundam and Niafunke –...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2015
Miky y Repa
La Reyna y La Real first met in 2012 on the underground rap circuit in Havana, having initially trod quite...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2017
