Reviews
Turn O Spinning Wheel
Sheffield’s storied musical pedigree is further burnished by Mishra, a folk collective supplying a beguiling ‘Indo-fusion’. The group deftly bring...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025
Transformation Time
Best-known until now as the lead vocalist for the LA band Chicano Batman, Bardo (whose full name is Bardo Martinez)...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025
Inspirar
Danças Ocultas | Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras
‘Inspirar’ means ‘to inspire’ in Portuguese – no surprise there, right? And the word takes the same double meaning as...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025
Meydan
Meral Polat is a Dutch singer of Turkish-Kurdish descent, devoted to exploring the space left by 70s Anatolian psychedelia and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2025
40girls / Kita Koun Kan
Ya Tosiba / Sabou-Gnouman De Kita
Purplish Records like to release music as pairs or batches on cassette. Batch #6 consists of albums by Ya Tosiba...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: October/2025
2015–2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years Of Sonic Explorations
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Les Disques Bongo Joe has grown out of its Geneva record store home, prolifically devoted to the clankily retro-electronic side...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025
Chigiyo Music Kings 1987–1998
Way back at the dawn of the 1980s, the slow’n’rootsy style of Zimbabwean chimurenga, as played by the mighty Thomas...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/2026
This is the Place
Hartwin is diatonic accordionist Hartwin Dhoore, here joined by violinist Pavel Souvandjiev and cellist Flavia Escartin, balancing the worlds of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2026
Songs of Truth
A plucked, multi-string instrument, the bandura is synonymous with Ukraine. For centuries, it was played by blind bards, the kobzari,...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: January/2026
Eadarainn a’ Chruit: Between Us the Harp
Marshalsay’s second album focuses on the three different harps of Scotland (the lever harp, the wire-strung clarsach from the Gaelic...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/2026
