Reviews
Dub Will Keep Us Together
Formed by the late great Nick Page after a visit to Ethiopia, Dub Colossus were an inspired and experimental British...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
De Lado a Lado
This Franco-Colombian sextet continues to find their feet on this fourth album, showcasing their “Colombian crunch music”. Echoing the group’s...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Antahkarana
Titled after a word meaning “inner instrument” in Sanskrit, the new album by Bengali-Australian fusion group The Three Seas is...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Unveiled
Tehrani Drom & Parisa Karimi Molan
Coming out of Montréal and Canada’s rich Persian music scene, this debut album, Unveiled, from Parisa Karimi Molan is a...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Jazz Is Dead 026
Working together since 1969, the hugely popular musical partnership of Antonio Carlos and Jocafi combines the folk traditions of their...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Willows
Pekka Kuusisto, Sam Amidon and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Willows opens with ‘The Lark Ascending’, in which Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto strips Vaughan Williams’ tone poem of the romantic...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Aia Haja?
On Aia Haja? Bobo & Behaja channel the dust and heat of Madagascar’s bals-poussière (dust balls) into six raw and...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Estuaire
Amid a plethora of crossover collaborations, the Montreal-based Constantinople stands out as an exemplary ensemble. Founded in 2001 by Iranian...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Landscapes of Eternity
Every time Naïssam Jalal releases a new album, I get to have the same thought: ‘bloody hell, she’s a fantastic...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
Som Sistema
Bern-based Afro-Brazilian singer Mariana Da Cruz’s seventh album is an urban, global-minded set that moves freely across genres, coloured by...
Reviewed in issue May/2026
