Reviews

Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This is literally a cassette mixtape, limited to 300 copies, although also available digitally. The mechanics of cooking, the sociability...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2024

Rural

Kaifo

Dressed in a beige 70s suit and dark, orange-tinted sunglasses, Kaifo (aka Carlos Asimbaya) stares out intensely from a background...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2023

Microfolk 1-3

Chaz Knapp, Cy Werner & Chaz Prymek

The deeply impressionistic, pointillist improvisations spread across these three wonderful collaborative cassette releases are like subtle adornments to the natural...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: December/2023

Ifetayo; Glory of Om; Anoda Sistem; ‘Oduduwa’ [single]

Oluko Imo / Black Truth Rhythm Band

With the blessing of his widow, Soundway Records have re-released three landmark albums and a single from the much underrated...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2024

Rabe

Aynur

The title of this album, Rabe, means ‘stand-up’ or ‘rise-up’ in Kurdish and Aynur Doğan has been standing up for...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2024

Bucolica

Hiram Salsano

Hiram Salsano’s debut album firmly establishes her as a remarkable artist, wielding a commanding and expressive voice rooted in Campania’s...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: December/2023

Beacons of the Wilderness

Ben McElroy

McElroy’s latest release, Beacons of the Wilderness, opens with haunting birdsong accompanied by atmospheric strings and a spoken narration. The...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2023

Digital Indigenous 07: Why Not

Twiggy

This is the seventh instalment in the 1000HZ series which spotlights local producers –predominantly from Malawi – working with rudimentary...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: September/2024

Super Son

Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo

Despite the name of Cuban trombonist Torres’ band (‘Something New’), 50 years later these 1977 cuts can’t help but sound...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: September/2024

Queen of Eyes

West of Roan

Take a pair of harmonising female vocalists, ask them to record outside a one-room cabin on an island off Washington...

Reviewed by Motez Bishara in issue: September/2024