Reviews
Teleology
If this really is the final album from Peggy Seeger, then the great lady is going out in style. Released...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2025
Cosmic Griots
Consistently funky and smile-inducing multi-diasporic Polish band The Afronauts channel the classic Afrobeat sound of Fela Kuti, the Ghanaian highlife...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: July/2025
El Tiempo Quiere Cantar
Anthropology and experimentation combine on this release by Peruvian musician-researchers Dimitri Manga Chávez and Ricardo López Alcas, who “explore the...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2025
SEAUXLEAUX
What more can you say about an artist who has all-out mastered his instrument (the fiddle) and taken home two...
Reviewed by Andrew Daly in issue: July/2025
New African Orleans
On his sixth album, this bass-playing son of a 60s Senegalese brass-band star sets out “westward [to] begin a musical...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2025
Another Place
When Pachyman (Pachy García) left San Juan for Los Angeles back in the day, he carried a love of dub...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2025
Bayou Moonlight
Jeffery Broussard & The Nighttime Syndicate
From the second that Bayou Moonlight’s opening track, ‘Whatever’, hits you, it’s readily apparent that you’re in for a wild,...
Reviewed by Andrew Daly in issue: July/2025
The Lone Wild Bird
Will Holshouser is an accordion player enjoying an eclectic career in New York, playing with, for instance, New York City...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2025
Roots in Motion
Oud master Mehmet Polat’s seventh record fizzes with energetic, odd-time compositions. He develops a cross-cultural conversation that Dave Brubeck picked...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2025
