Reviews
Hawalat
It’s been hard keeping track of the work of Charif Megarbane. The Lebanese composer and multi-instrumentalist has released dozens of...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Teleology
If this really is the final album from Peggy Seeger, then the great lady is going out in style. Released...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Cosmic Griots
Consistently funky and smile-inducing multi-diasporic Polish band The Afronauts channel the classic Afrobeat sound of Fela Kuti, the Ghanaian highlife...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Club Tounsi
It’s only been a few weeks since the release of his last album, the excellent Live at Another Sky Festival,...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Album No. 1
Les Abranis were founded in the late 1960s by singer Karim Abdenour and organ player Shamy El Vaz, two young...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Furie
Something of an anomaly in this magazine but also on the pop scene, Anglo-Austrian singer Alicia Edelweiss is one of...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Laini Tan
More than seven years after her debut, the second solo album from Egyptian-born, Montréal-based Nadah El Shazly brings all the...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Wild Green
This London-based group have blended their atypical instrumentation of clarinet, percussion, violin and cello to engaging effect on two previous...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Ylh Bye Bye
A taut tension between tradition and the wide-open possibilities of the future underpins Ylh Bye Bye, the debut album by...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
Fontana Rosa
Multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis returns with an all-star Celtic/Latin line-up featuring Venezuelan percussionist Baldo Verdú, American drummer Shawn Lee, the Isle...
Reviewed in issue July/2025
