Reviews

Rural

Kaifo

Dressed in a beige 70s suit and dark, orange-tinted sunglasses, Kaifo (aka Carlos Asimbaya) stares out intensely from a background...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2023

Congo Guitar

Vumbi Dekula

With sharp and clear tones –reminiscent of the sounds of one of the titans of Congolese guitar playing, Dr Nico...

Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: December/2023

Strata

El Búho

Along with a memorable roll call of musicians/producers from the UK, El Búho has fallen in love with Latin America,...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2023

The Resonance Between

Alam Khan, Arjun K Verma, Jack Perla & Del Sol Quartet

While there are countless East-West fusions out there, there are few that sound as effortlessly meant to be as this...

Reviewed by Alexndra Petropoulos in issue: December/2023

Windrush Baby

Aleighcia Scott

The debut album from the Welsh-Jamaican singer Aleighcia Scott is worth checking out both for the range and variety of...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2023

Last Night a Woman Saved My Life

Dominique Dalcan

Last Night a Woman Saved My Life is a mesmerising journey into the space between Western minimalism and Middle Eastern...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: December/2023

Mango

Mo’Horizons

Helming Mo’ Horizons are two Hannoverian DJs and producers, Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark Wetzler, who have been plying their Euro-Brazilian...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2023

Ooroo

Sangit

Like an Israeli equivalent of Nitin Sawhney, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Sangit draws on global influences and a wide range...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023

Hadsel

Beirut

Zach Condon takes his stage name from the capital of Lebanon because Beirut is where cultures meet and was ‘known...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2023

Aiê

LUIZGA & Edgar Valente

The nomadic Brazilian singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist LUIZGA is perhaps better known as Luiz Gabriel Lopes, erstwhile member of groups...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2023