Reviews
Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982)
A simplified history of music during the period dubbed L’Authenticité in the Congo shows a period of heavily state-funded and...
Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: June/2024
Les Secrets du Ciel
Yann Falquet is best-known as the singer and guitarist who co-founded the award-winning Québécois folk trio Genticorum, celebrated for their...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Migrant Voices
Migrant Voices is a collaboration between two immigrants to Canada who discovered each other through the global music scene in...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2024
Circus of Desire
It’s been five years since Olivia Chaney’s last solo album, Shelter, which came between the stellar set of traditional balladry...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2024
Flamenco Mediterráneo
Carlos Coronado likes to establish a musical connection with landscape. Having been born in the Baix Empordà region of Catalonia,...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2024
Hajda!
This is the debut of a new band focussing on the traditional music of Polesia, a region of eastern Poland,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2024
Build Something Better
Grace Petrie is a Leicester-born singer-songwriter and musical activist who sounds better, and angrier, with every new album. She started...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Vida
Vida is Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade. That does not mean the Chilean rapper was hiding from the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024
Parenthesis, I
Now with a number of bold solo albums under her belt and a successful record label, it’s hard to remember...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: July/2024
