Reviews

Tchenbé!

Dowdelin

The third album from the Lyon-based group marks a slight departure from their previous two. Dance vibes rooted in Martiniquais...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Ritual Sonoro

Amparo Sánchez

How far can you fuse without creating the musical equivalent of brown plasticine? Andalusian singer-songwriter and musician Amparo Sánchez (aka...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Perenne Pilar

María Cielos

Born in Barcelona, María Cielos spent ten years living abroad, seven of them in Rwanda, before she returned to the...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

A Blade Because a Blade is Whole

Alabaster DePlume

Emerging from the UK’s experimental underground, DePlume’s Spotify statistics indicate that his concoction of poetry and jazz provides a taste...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Turnar

Hekla

Named for the medieval French castle tower in which it was partly recorded, Turnar is the third album from Icelandic...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Tatekieto

PulciPerla

What’s in a name? PulciPerla is the marriage of two long-standing groups: the high-energy Toulouse quartet of drums, bass, accordion...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Live in the Khaleej!

Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi & Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill

This project is inspired by Al-Mulaifi’s grandfather, one of the last of a generation of Kuwaiti master pearl divers, and...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Journeys

Brian Molley Quartet & The Asin Langa Ensemble

This record deepens the engagement of Scottish saxophonist Molley with Indian music. On 2022’s Intercontinental, Molley’s focus was on Tamil...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Colliding Layers

Alex Figueira

When the phrase “library music” comes up, the image that comes to my mind is of dusty LPs with modernist...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

For the Olives

Trendafilka

With For the Olives, New Orleans-based Trendafilka extends the legacy of Eastern European polyphonic singing into the 21st century. An...

Reviewed in issue May/2025