Reviews

Solstice Concert

Fabiano do Nascimento | Fabiano Do Nascimento

Raised in Rio and São Paulo, the now LA-based acoustic guitarist has had a busy time recently, with albums for...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Shadows of Perception

Aracan

Currently based in Australia, Aracan originally hail from Colombia. Guitarist and producer Carlos Arango previously played with a 15-piece cumbia...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Maouzoun

Maouzoun

Norway’s Inger Hannisdal grew up playing classical violin and a little jazz on the side before studying Arabic music at...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

La Pata Coja

The Bongo Hop

The Bongo Hop are the brainchild of France-based Etienne Sevet, who could be considered part of the new tropical revivalists,...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Carmen 404

Lolomis

With this fourth album, the French-ish quartet Lolomis continue to provide high-grade, adventurous splicings of hard electronics and sylvan folk....

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Kananayé

Kanazoe, Clotilde Rullaud, Abdoulaye Traore, Boubacar Djiga & Achille Nacoulma

This album has its origins in a project commissioned for a 2019 festival in Burkina Faso in which French singer...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Tapestry

Vazesh

Vazesh is an Australia-based trio that brings together an unexpected combination of instruments. At the heart of the sound is...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Gharbí

Andrés Belmonte

This album has a strongly conceptual quality to it. Belmonte imagines himself journeying between Andalucía and Arabia with the purpose...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Fermentation

Jake Blanchard

Followers of northern English underground sounds may be interested to find another psychedelic offering featuring a shahi bajaa – an...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Mon Péi

Maloya Jazz Xperianz

After releasing their first physical album at the end of last year, the quintet from La Réunion have now gone...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025