Reviews

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2014 Tony Allen visited Haiti to perform with local musicians at a concert in Port-Au-Prince's main square. He was...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Al Viento

Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus

InFiné

Rating: ★★★★

Even without the different surnames, you’d be forgiven for not realising that Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus are father and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Mirrors

Mala

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Though he will perhaps always be best known for his role in instigating the dubstep movement – through his work...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Sandaraa

Rating: ★★★★

Sandaraa are a musical manifesto defying ethnic, linguistic and national borders and tracing a shared human experience through their ‘trans-Eurasian’...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Song of Lahore

The Sachal Ensemble

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's sad that the conductor of The Sachal Ensemble, Najat Ali, still feels it necessary to state that ‘we will...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Aukai

Rating: ★★

Aukai is German multi-instrumentalist and composer Markus Sieber; his stage moniker is a Hawaiian word meaning ‘traveller.’ His ambient-hippy instrumental...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016