Reviews
Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan
Defining exactly what is or is not ‘avant-garde’ music is an impossible task, with not even close to a consensus...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2021
Nocturne
Born in Marseilles to Afro-Caribbean parents, Walters has enjoyed a varied career from founding the French electro hip-hop collective Zimpala...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
Echoes of Africa
The Invisible Session’s debut album came out in 2006 and now, just 15 years later, the follow-up is hot on...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2021
Draft
Despite growing up in the small town of Anogia on the island of Crete, also home to such famous Greek...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2021
Cera Perdida
Since their inception a decade ago, Bogotá-based Colombian cumbia pioneers Frente Cumbiero have been a force to be reckoned with....
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2021
Djourou
For this, his 11th album, the Paris-based kora maestro Ballaké Sissoko collaborated with a clutch of genre-diverse French and African...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2021
Talûş
Yıldırım is a young Turkish musician specialising in the kamancha (spiked fiddle), called kabak kemane in Anatolia where a dried...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2021
Čihkkojuvon
These pages are sprinkled with bands that blend pop, hip-hop, reggae and jazz with traditional influences, but prog and hard...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: May/2021
Cavalluccio
Behind Lalala Napoli is the gifted veteran French accordionist and singer François Castiello of former Bratsch fame, who uses the...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2021
