Reviews
Mother Nature
Angélique Kidjo has a pleasing way of making every release a unique project rather than just another album. After collaborating...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2021
Lastenkerääjä
Akkajee are a Finnish band of two akkas, a term they define as a ‘head-strong woman with a decisive attitude...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2021
Drömmaren
Elin Jonsson is a fiddle player from the north of Sweden making her solo debut with this new release. Growing...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2021
Meridiana
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
‘Meridiana is about our relationship with time, its perception. As southerners we are defined by our connection with the sun,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2021
We Will Never Die
This is Tuva’s one and only Albert Kuvezin’s first Yat-Kha studio album since 2010’s excellent Poets and Lighthouses. Right from...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2021
Sinuose
Sinuose is the debut album of singer-songwriter Luli Braga. Born in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, her...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2021
A Viagem Das Horas
This is a reissue of music from a reclusive Brazilian musician who was long assumed dead or ‘disappeared’ by the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2021
Live in New York 2010
The great Malian singer Khaira Arby died in 2018, so archive recordings have now become even more valuable. This 2010...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2021
El Fabuloso Sonido De Andrés Vargas Pinedo
The Peruvian Amazon was a hotbed of music in the 60s and 70s, but this collection makes it clear that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2021
