Reviews
Retumba La Tierra
Calle Mambo are a five-piece band that combine traditional Chilean instrumentation with synthesizers and modern flourishes to create a hybrid...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: August/2025
8 Miles from Rusk
Jason Dea West & The Siskiyou Crest
Boasting a backstory that includes younger days as a busker and freight train hopper, as well as working the circus...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: August/2025
Áshira
Gamelan Salukat x Jan Kadereit
There’s something transcendental about this time-bending collaboration between Copenhagen-based composer Jan Kadereit and Balinese gamelan orchestra Salukat. For those unfamiliar...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2025
The Mighty Rootsmen
Long in the making, US rock producer Ralph Sall’s Mighty Rootsmen project sees ten evergreen rock and pop standards reimagined...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: August/2025
Iration Steppas: Dubs from the Foundation
Founded in the early 1990s in Leeds, Iration Steppas is the creative brainchild of Mark Iration and one of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: August/2025
MVD LUV
Love – or rather, ‘LUV’ – is the operative word and it’s hard not to be enchanted (or occasionally irritated)...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/2025
Die Demokratie
Growing up in Germany as part of the Turkish diaspora, Ozan Ata Canani began playing the bağlama and writing songs...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2025
Quattro
Bonifica Emiliana Veneta return with a brand-new recording after nearly two decades. Quattro refers to both their fourth release and...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: August/2025
African Jazz invites OK Jazz
There were two main protagonists in the evolution of Congolese popular music in the 1960s: Joseph Kabasele (alias Grand Kallé),...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
An 424
Imagine an amalgam of traditional Irish folk, post-rock, jazz and the disruptive spirit of Dada, stir provocatively with nine musicians...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2025
