Reviews
Kaira
Toumani Diabaté | Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
This was the album that created an icon. The late Toumani Diabaté released his debut Kaira in 1988 and it...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2025
Yarın Yoksa
Fans of groove-laden psyche will love this offering from these boundary-defying purveyors of vintage-style Anatolian soul. The silky vocals of...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: April/2025
Nací Mestizo
Intertextuality is not a common word to introduce a review of dance music, but it is everywhere in this second...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2025
Our Calling
Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko
The British-Italian folk songwriter Piers Faccini and the Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko (Taj Mahal, Toumani Diabaté, Derek Gripper) first...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025
Boss Morris
The self-titled debut from Boss Morris soars with all the melancholy folk beauty of a Red Kite in a wintry...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: April/2025
Dans fra Dalstrøka
By their own admission, the music of Norwegian sextet Hornorkesteret is hard to describe, and the line-up does little to...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2025
Armageddon in a Sunny Dress
According to Sunny War, the music on Armageddon in a Sunny Dress, her follow-up to 2023’s Anarchist Gospel, partly stems...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025
