Reviews
Iration Steppas: Dubs from the Foundation
Founded in the early 1990s in Leeds, Iration Steppas is the creative brainchild of Mark Iration and one of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: August/2025
MVD LUV
Love – or rather, ‘LUV’ – is the operative word and it’s hard not to be enchanted (or occasionally irritated)...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/2025
Die Demokratie
Growing up in Germany as part of the Turkish diaspora, Ozan Ata Canani began playing the bağlama and writing songs...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2025
Quattro
Bonifica Emiliana Veneta return with a brand-new recording after nearly two decades. Quattro refers to both their fourth release and...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: August/2025
African Jazz invites OK Jazz
There were two main protagonists in the evolution of Congolese popular music in the 1960s: Joseph Kabasele (alias Grand Kallé),...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
An 424
Imagine an amalgam of traditional Irish folk, post-rock, jazz and the disruptive spirit of Dada, stir provocatively with nine musicians...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2025
Mad Dogs
Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet Grace Rogers comes from a family of old time, traditional and stringband musicians – during...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: August/2025
Jawaya Jathum
Jawaya Jathum translates as ‘The Guitarist and The Music Lover’, these being Polycarp Otieno (aka Fancy Fingers) and sweetly soulful...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
Nu Sta Li
Following in the footsteps of influential groups like Bulimundo, Luxembourg-based Cape Verdeans Grupo Pilón have been updating the funaná genre...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2025
The Devil Rides Again
Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia
There is no doubt that Fanfare Ciocarlia remain among the fastest and most precise brass bands in the world. And...
Reviewed by Ula Nowak in issue: August/2025
