Reviews

Alondra

Gao Hong & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde

Following her award-winning 2023 album with kora-player Kadialy Kouyate, US-based Chinese pipa virtuoso Gao Hong returns with a new duo...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

A LA SALA

Khruangbin

The Texas-based trio of bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald ‘DJ’ Johnson Jr and guitarist Marko Speer may be best...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Nay’ Indaba

Marthe x Pilani Bubu

In the Xhosa language, indaba refers to an authorised meeting, such as a conference of chiefs, called to discuss a...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

I Too am a Stranger

The Sorcerers

The Sorcerers are not exactly prolific – this is their third album in nine years – but they are a...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

The Otium Mixtape

KILEDJIAN

David Kiledjian is a producer/musician based in Lyon. This debut solo album puts us in touch with Lyon’s futurist electronic...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

BRSB

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

Bacao pan out of Hamburg, lending a Caribbean touch to rap hits, although some of these covers are somewhat mainstream...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Extinct But Still Alive

Mama Longhorn

This is Finnish music collective Mama Longhorn’s fourth album in a 13-year career which has seen them acclaimed as among...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

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