Reviews
Bu Bir Demdir
Alevi-German singer Aylin Yıldırım and her band of Augsburg-based musicians on saz, guitar, drums, bass and keys perform a selection...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/2025
Ventre Unique
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Ventre Unique, the sixth album by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, merges folk, krautrock, post-punk and African rhythms to create...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: January/2025
Mahavélouz
La Réunion’s maloya music has provided fertile ground for electronic producers looking to inject the genre’s trancelike rhythms onto sub-heavy...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: April/2025
Las Últimas Composiciones de Violeta Parra
There’s a moment on this album, during the song ‘Cantores que Reflexionan’ (Singers Who Reflect), where the listener is held...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2025
White
Torgeir Vassvik & Juhani Silvola
Many young bands today are grasping the traditions of the Sámi joik and taking it beyond the northern Sápmi landscapes,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2025
Oy Vesna Krasna
Karolina Węgrzyn is a Polish-born singer now resident in the UK. Oy Vesna Krasna (Oh, Beautiful Spring) is her debut...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2025
Do You Remember?
Hailing from Germany, this amorphous cross-cultural jazz collective have been making waves on the Berlin underground with their infectious grooves,...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: April/2025
reEncanto
Andrade’s last record, Manga (2019), was a deep dive into the contemporary African pop music scene. reEncanto, a live acoustic...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2024
