Reviews
OberTany
Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Open the Gate of Zion
After recording solo ska singles at Studio One, Leonard Dillon formed The Ethiopians harmony trio in the rock steady era...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Le Bonhomme Sept Heures: The Bonesetter
Grosse Isle, the island in the St Lawrence River in Québec, was famously an immigration/quarantine depot for Irish immigrants escaping...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Un Canto por México Vol 2
The follow-up to last year’s acclaimed Un Canto por México, Vol 1 (a Top of the World in November 2020,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Na Kozonga
It’s been eight years since Kinshasa’s Jupiter Bokondji released his debut album, Hotel Univers. Backed by the tight-as-a-mosquito’s-tweeter Okwess band,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Jar’a
A sound explorer and artistic orchestrator, Paolo Angeli is known for playing a prepared Sardinian guitar, a crossbreed instrument provided...
Reviewed by Cira De Rosa in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Solid Gold U Roy
The death of U Roy in February at the age of 78 had an ‘end of an era’ feeling, since...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Deja
Their first full-length release since 2017’s Ayo, Colombian hybrid-beat band Bomba Estéreo’s new album Deja was produced in Santa Marta,...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Similar & Different
Dal:um are a Korean duo deploying two ‘similar yet different’ traditional instruments in a contemporary context. Both instruments are plucked...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
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Mien (Yao): Canon Singing in China, Vietnam, Laos
This album features four intricate samples of canon singing from Mien (Yao) hill tribes living in China, Vietnam and Laos....
Reviewed by Frank Kouwenhoven in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
