Reviews
Artemisia
Hailing from Burkina Faso, Art Melody is a farmer by day and rapper and singer by night, bringing a fresh...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2023
IMA
Some impressive names join London-based singer Noga Ritter on a debut solo album which blends Hebrew and English vocals, jazz...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2023
Hawksworth
Perhaps best known as the tub-thumper responsible for the awkward, stumbling funk of art rock weirdos Dead Rider, Matt Espy...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2023
Millions of Us
Ten tracks into Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness’ (BCUC) Millions of Us, there's a message from Jovi Nkosi to producer Sam...
Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: July/2023
Macadam
The Belgian trio schroothoop make their own instruments, recycled from plastic, metal and wood. Their obsession is to construct shadow...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2023
O Yinne!
Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy
Lively church music based on Ghanaian highlife traditions with a modern electric slant. Guitars, two keyboards and a horn section...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2023
Archangel Hill
Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2023
Feast of Wire
In the late 1990s the Americana duo of John Convertino and Joey Burns created a form of desert blues inspired...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
Scuru Cauru
Scuru Cauru, Crimi's second album, kicks off with the bubbling of a water pipe and a vague background ditty suggestive...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2023
