Reviews
2015–2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years Of Sonic Explorations
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Les Disques Bongo Joe has grown out of its Geneva record store home, prolifically devoted to the clankily retro-electronic side...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025
In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper
Slovenian avant-folk outfit Širom have built a much-deserved buzz around themselves over the last ten years. The trio are not...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: October/2025
Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke developed Ethio-jazz in the 1960s, and he’s not stopped since, constantly forging new paths for...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2025
Al-hambra
Ahmed Mukhtar & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde
Baghdad-born Ahmed Mukhtar studied oud and Western percussion in London. On this album, inspired by a visit to Granada’s Alhambra...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
Inspirar
Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras | Danças Ocultas
‘Inspirar’ means ‘to inspire’ in Portuguese – no surprise there, right? And the word takes the same double meaning as...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025
Meydan
Meral Polat is a Dutch singer of Turkish-Kurdish descent, devoted to exploring the space left by 70s Anatolian psychedelia and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2025
Babo Moreno
Son of renowned Brazilian percussionist Bosco de Oliveira, Fabio de Oliveira, aka Babo Moreno, grew up in London, making his...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: October/2025
Salta!
Salta!, the debut LP from Brussels-based trio Peixe e Limão, can hardly be said to start as it means to...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: October/2025
Horses
Country, and especially 70s country, is at the core of Tobacco City’s sound. The band, fronted by Lexi Goddard and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2025
