Reviews
Yoruba Odyssey
In recent years Nigerian music has become synonymous with the globalised Afrobeats of the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Soutak
Aziza Brahim was born in the refugee camps of Algeria, an exile from her homeland in what the Saharawis call...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2014
Muzyka spod Radomia
This album is like spending an evening at a superb village folk night in Poland, which wouldn’t have existed 20...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Feast of Wire
In the late 1990s the Americana duo of John Convertino and Joey Burns created a form of desert blues inspired...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
Thank You for Bringing Me Back to the Sky
The Oldest Voice in the World (Azerbaijan)
The music we call global should thank the heavens, really, for the Grammy-winning producer and field recordist Ian Brennan, who...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2023
Tornadon Silmässä
The word ‘vimma’ means ‘frenzy’ in Finnish and this young band’s frenzy is against climate change and the despoliation of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2024
Doğu Ekspresi
The border town of Kars in the far north-east of Turkey holds a special allure in the Turkish imagination. The...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2025
Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music
Marking the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, this compilation is named after the island’s motto, ‘Out of Many,’ Drawing on...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Encyclopedia of Arto
A founding member of seminal New York ‘no wave’ band DNA and long a guitar-shredding pivot of New York's downtown...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2014
