Reviews
Kinshasa In Action
“In Action” is the key part of this title. A release bristling with life and possibility, KINACT’s Kinshasa In Action...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Karakoz
Mai Mai Mai is the audio-visual project of musician and artist Toni Cutrone, which explores folklore, hauntology and traditions from...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
WE MEAN IT, MAN!
Eugene Hütz’s American-Ukrainian gypsy-punks have always favoured heavyweight rock producers, with Steve Albini (Nirvana) and Rick Rubin (Metallica/Aerosmith) among those...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Dub Will Keep Us Together
Formed by the late great Nick Page after a visit to Ethiopia, Dub Colossus were an inspired and experimental British...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
De Lado a Lado
This Franco-Colombian sextet continues to find their feet on this fourth album, showcasing their “Colombian crunch music”. Echoing the group’s...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Antahkarana
Titled after a word meaning “inner instrument” in Sanskrit, the new album by Bengali-Australian fusion group The Three Seas is...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Unveiled
Tehrani Drom & Parisa Karimi Molan
Coming out of Montréal and Canada’s rich Persian music scene, this debut album, Unveiled, from Parisa Karimi Molan is a...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Jazz Is Dead 026
Working together since 1969, the hugely popular musical partnership of Antonio Carlos and Jocafi combines the folk traditions of their...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Willows
Pekka Kuusisto, Sam Amidon and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Willows opens with ‘The Lark Ascending’, in which Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto strips Vaughan Williams’ tone poem of the romantic...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Aia Haja?
On Aia Haja? Bobo & Behaja channel the dust and heat of Madagascar’s bals-poussière (dust balls) into six raw and...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
