Reviews
Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium
A robust and diverse collection of Black roots music in America, this intentionally titled ‘compendium’ of sorts houses an impressive...
Reviewed by Marie Bashiru in issue: June/2023
Savor
Music and food go well together. So much so that singer Sarah Aroeste and chef Susan Barocas decided to join...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2023
Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends
In 1960s America, you couldn’t enter a coffee house without running into a malcontent folk singer with a ratty guitar...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024
Cañonazo
Pacheco was a co-founder of the legendary Fania Records, and this was the label's first release, as rather than work...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: November/2024
Great Joy to the New
Great Joy to the New opens with ‘Derby Ram’, the surprisingly upbeat story of a gargantuan sheep and the gloriously...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2025
Ajdad – Ancestors (Echoes of Persia)
Another record from a Western-based Iranian musician with the same familiar themes: mystical song titles, cross-cultural collaboration and, of course,...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: February/March/2025
The Channel
South East London fusionists Monzanto Sound occupy a space between contemporary jazz, funk, electronica and African diasporic influences. Many bands...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: October/2025
Tilaye’s Saxophone with the Dahlak Band
Saxophonist Tilaye Gebre was one of the stalwarts of Addis Ababa’s popular music scene from the 1960s to the 1980s,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2026
