Reviews
Club Coco – New Dimensions in Latin Music
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
The Dominican-American Charlie Chimi’s ‘Échale Candela’ (Set it on Fire) was what first sparked Mexican DJ Coco Maria to assemble...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025
Stråk
In the mid-17th century, the copper mining industry began in the Norwegian town of Røros. The mines needed coal and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2025
El Quinto Cardón
Supergroup Los Cinco Cardones met playing music in Los Cabos, the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula – a...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: October/2025
The Channel
South East London fusionists Monzanto Sound occupy a space between contemporary jazz, funk, electronica and African diasporic influences. Many bands...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: October/2025
Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day
Charbel Haber, Nicolás Jaar & Sary Moussa
Recorded August 2, 2024 in Beirut, during Israeli aggression against Lebanon, this album consists of a single unedited ambient improvisation...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
Black Diamonds
Seven years after her Top of the World album Mystic Dance, UK-based Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir returns with a fourth...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2026
Till att säga hennes namn
Hailing from Uppsala, Sweden, pianist, vocalist and composer Annika Hammer grew up studying classical music, and later became absorbed in...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/2026
sMiLes
A creative individualist through and through, Canadian-Haitian saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Jowee Omicil has assembled another repertoire rich in ideas and...
Reviewed by Christina M. Bauer in issue: January/2026
From Minho to Euphrates
To say that this album explores medieval religious music from around the Mediterranean undersells it. The record subverts our sense...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/2026
