Reviews
Teenage Dreams
Unless you have been living under a rock this summer, the likelihood is you would have heard amapiano booming from...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2021
Nagtaba
Kandy Guira is an Ivory Coast-born singer and dancer from Burkina Faso, an erstwhile member of the supergroup Les Amazones...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2021
Olin Ennen
On her debut recording, Olin Ennen (which translates in Finnish to ‘I Was’), Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Barbora Xu explores...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2021
This Pale
Shujaat Husain Khan, Katayoun Goudarzi, Shaho Andalibi, Shariq Mustafa
Sufi music exists in various forms in different parts of the Islamic world with differing music and poetry in various...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2021
Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)
Egyptian multi-instrumentalist Maurice Louca is known for navigating between electronic dance music, crossovers with Egypt’s contemporary maghraganat music, participating in...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: December/2021
The Sound Braka
Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Temelkovski, has recently brought out his first album, a captivating suite of soulful melodies, intoxicating rhythms and...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: December/2021
Spiorachas: A High Place
With their fourth album, Scottish fiddle and piano partnership Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach confirm their ability to sing the...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2021
Dreamless Days
The Meadows are a family band of four siblings: sisters Melody, Fantasia and Titania Meadows, and their brother, Harvey. Harvey...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2021
Wary + Strange
As part of Rhiannon Giddens’ 2019 project Our Native Daughters, the Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a Grammy nomination for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
Kamana
Now here's an odd one. Carlos Casas is a Spanish-born filmmaker and artist whose work encompasses film, sound and visual...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021
