Reviews

High Above Harlesden [Box Set]

Creation Rebel

Creation Rebel are pioneers of the UK dub scene. Emerging from working-class London in the late 1970s, their music stepped...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Otherness

AO Music

Imagine yourself watching a performance where musicians perform a kaleidoscope celebrating world traditions, including multi-lingual voices, sometimes mysteriously inserting newly...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

(In search of) New Flemish Masters

Osama Abdulrasol

Abdulrasol is a brave and intriguing musician. A multi-instrumentalist born in Iraq and now based in Belgium, he plays an...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

King Perry

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Upsetters | Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

When visionary dub producer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry died in 2021, it came as a surprise. At 85, Perry’s energy seemed...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Suave Bruta

Ëda Diaz

There has recently been a wave of new approaches in Britain and continental Europe to mainland Latin American music, often...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Interior

Rosa Anschütz

Who said musicians had to stick to one art form? Not the fabulous Rosa Anschütz, a Berlin-based creative – or...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Bin Dilde

Çiçek Taksi

‘Flower Taxi’ in English, present their second album, which means ‘in a thousand languages.’ Singer Selin Dettwiler, of Turkish-Kurdish background...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Hysterrae

Hysterrae

This album brings together four musicians, all women, from three different traditions who draw on music from Afghanistan to southern...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Losean

JO BISSA x KAN

This is a curious, patchily atmospheric album created by two artists who have never met. JO BISSA is a Dutch...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Delight

Arushi Jain

With 2021’s Under the Lilac Sky, Arushi Jain announced herself as a gifted alchemist of electronica and Hindustani music through...

Reviewed in issue April/2024