Reviews
Metamorphose
Technically a debut, this coming together of three of Montréal’s most accomplished global musicians is as assured as any veteran...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2026
Ecstasy: Between Two Seas
‘Epic’ is the word to best describe Sami Yusuf. A British-Azerbaijani singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist, he has been hailed as...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2026
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Cocanha, Los Sara Fontán & Tarta Relena
Getting three different duos with very assertive personalities in the same studio and expecting it to work may sound a...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2026
Liberatsiya
‘There are mines underfoot; in the sky there is a swarm of drones… our mothers are praying for us’. The...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2026
Vishap
Armenian singer-composer Victoria Alexanyan moved to Lyon to study French language and culture in 2018. There she began to combine...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: May/2026
Chasing Shadows
Despite the plethora of guests that guitarist and bandleader Tom Excell’s nine-piece outfit has employed over the course of five...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2026
LÉVE LÉVE Vol. 2: Sao Tomé & Principe Sounds 70s-80s
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
It’s been six years since Bongo Joe’s first volume of sounds from these two former Portuguese colonies in the equatorial...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2026
Nuevos Ríos
Nuevos Ríos (‘New Rivers’) blends the Afro-Pacific sounds of Colombian group Canalón de Timbiquí, led by vocalist Nidia Góngora, with...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2026
Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
Andy Cohen, Eleanor Ellis & William Lee Ellis
More than three decades after their last album as a trio, Andy Cohen, Eleanor Ellis and William Lee Ellis have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2026
Tirakat
It’s not often we come across an album that purports to explore the longstanding cultural traffic between Indonesia and the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2026
