Reviews
Are You Invested in the Economy of Love?
While this debut release from London/Lefkosia-based project ELY features some of the UK’s finest contemporary jazz musicians – including AIM...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2022
Yn Fyw
This is a heart-warming disc. It's the recording of a performance in Caernarfon – the heart of Welsh Wales –...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2010
Lost & Found
Nick Beggs has a career extending back to the high point of early 80s New Romantic pop, and the band...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2023
El Sonido Bastardo
Madrid’s Danzón El Gato occupy a similar sonic space to US band Khruangbin, melding psychedelic rock influences with a plethora...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: June/2025
Ura Uku
Based in the Ecuadorian Andes, ‘neotraditional’ Jatun Mama, AKA producer Jesús Atzil Bonilla, reshapes the music of his native land...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: December/2025
Home
Here’s an interesting oddity. A group of African musicians sing in a makeshift studio on the banks of Lake Malawi,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Música da Terra
Batuk are a dance-infused trio hailing from South Africa. Comprised of renowned producer and rapper Spoek Mathambo, Aero Manyelo and...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2017
Maslak Halay1
The whole sound of Ayyuka is summed up in the title of their fifth album; halay, aficionados of Turkish and...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
A la Manera Artesana
Spanish folk has a quality perfect for our times: the ability to wail, complain and lament and, at the same...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2022
Songs of Biboki
Reviewing music like this is a bit like trying to slap a star rating on someone's breathing – it's rather...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Apr/May/2012
