Reviews
Tiny Notes
If there's healing in song, then The Young’uns are performing some kind of mental health service for their nation. The...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2023
No Food Without Taste If By Hunger
Following Edo Funk Explosion Vol 1, which featured three Benin City groups, we are now treated to an album by...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2023
Pontos de Passagem
Fado Malvado are a Portuguese quartet that focus on the musical bond between an accordion, a pair of guitars and...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2023
Le Monde Moderne
Welcome to volume two of a mesmeric voyage into the very bowels of the capital of Niger, Niamey, and beyond....
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: May/2023
Jerusalem
Tsege-Mariam Gebru is an emahoy (sister) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, living a hermetic life in Jerusalem at 99 years...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2023
Agôra
This prolific world-jazz trio from São Paulo boosted their profile in 2020 with a BBC 6 Music Album of the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023
Lost Voices
It's tempting to say that the stories recounted in song form on Lost Voices eclipse the songs themselves. But that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2023
Volume 1
Having played together on various projects over the last few years, it was maybe inevitable that harmonica whizz Will Pound...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2023
Sølvstrøk
Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola
Sølvstrøk – the title alone drips with poetry and mystery. It translates as ‘Silverstroke,’ but hang on to that Norwegian...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2023
