Reviews
Pase Lo Que Pase
Colombian musician Paulo Olarte, based in Geneva, is the leader of several groups. All of them take as their starting...
Reviewed by Jaime Andrés Monsalve in issue: April/2022
Dance of the Copper Trail
For husband and wife duo Oka Vanga's 2014 debut Pilgrim, they recorded a set of beautifully pure, mainly original instrumental...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2017
Illusion & Doubt
Like a backfiring, smoke-belching, fluid-dripping jalopy from a bygone era, The Dead South pop, chuff and wheeze their way across...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2018
Salone
The Kondi Band teams the blind Sierra Leonean thumb piano player and vocalist Sorie Kondi with the US producer and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Bwati Kono Vol 1
The death of Lobi Traoré in 2010 at the age of 49 deprived the Malian music scene of a blues...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2013
Imaginary Soundtrack
The newest album by the prolific Copenhagen-based composer Paolo Russo is inspired by music for the films of his native...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Dreamland
Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys
Dreamland, the fourth album by the Prince Edward Island quartet Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys, is a welcome entry...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2019
Boring & Weird Historical Music
As hard to categorise as it is to stop listening to, Boring & Weird Historical Music is a genre-defying aural...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2020
Kora Fo
Born into a legendary griot family in Casamance, Senegal, for the past decade Maher Cissoko has been resident in Sweden,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
Riitti
This debut album from Finnish duo, Liisa Haapanen (cello, voice, percussion) and Janne Ojajärvi (harmonica, jaw harp, flute, voice and...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: June/2022
