Reviews

Night Reign

Arooj Aftab

Aftab’s 2021 album Vulture Prince transcended art music obscurity to enjoy blanket broadsheet coverage. It won the Pakistani-American artist a...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Temporal Waves

Temporal Waves

Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky has performed and recorded across many genres for the past 25 years, but this is...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Ishtirak

Ishtirak

This debut album is an improvised masterpiece coming to us out of Beirut, the city that has suffered so many...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Birth & Death

Phil Bancroft & Gyan Singh

Scottish jazz saxophonist-composer Phil Bancroft founded the Myriad Streams label as a grass-roots alternative to the overwhelming choices of platforms...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Neynik (Mirror)

Eléonore Fourniau

Listening to Neynik, if there is one thing that we would not suspect, it is that Eléonore is French… This...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Dala Toni

Ajate

Dala Toni is the third album to be released by the Japanese-Afrobeat fusion collective Ajate. Led since 2009 by Junichiro...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Tropikantele

Ruttusound

Chilling with a piña colada after a sauna? That might be the vibe as Finland’s national instrument, the kantele, fuses...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

New Regency Orchestra

New Regency Orchestra

Brainchild of Lex Blondin, Church of Sound and Total Refreshment Centre co-founder, New Regency Orchestra is an 18-piece Afro-Cuban big...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

New Stories

Eve Crazy & Mar Yo

This duo recording presents an intriguing clash of cultures. Eve Crazy is a Senegalese female rapper perhaps best-known as a...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Passeport

LASS | Lass

From the moment Lassana Sané, aka Lass, gently launches into the opening track ‘Massamba’, the listener is aware of the...

Reviewed in issue July/2024