Reviews

Blackbird Returns

Fat Freddy’s Drop

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of their 2013 album Blackbird, New Zealand Māori soul-dub-funk octet Fat Freddy’s Drop have put together...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Secret Museum of Mankind – Atlas of Instruments: Fiddles Volume 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

A curio and a labour of love, Fiddles Vol 1 is a compilation in the intriguingly-named Secret Museum of Mankind...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Somanti

Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers

The follow-up to 2020’s Vodou Alé opens with the Creole voices of Haitian vodou troupe Chouk Bwa echoing eerily between...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Drum Money

Ekiti Sound

Leke Awoyinka, otherwise known as Ekiti Sound, is a singer-songwriter and producer who has moved between Lagos and the UK,...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Desert Drip

Balkan Bump

It’s maybe not a very usual response to music to think, ‘how clever!’, but cleverness is what comes to mind...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Afro Futuristic Dreams

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

Ever since the Strut label resurrected their career, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids have produced some of the most compelling...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning

Chief Adjuah

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) has foregone his usual jazz trumpet, relying instead on his amazing voice and...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Chahâr

Meelodi

Meaning ‘four’ in Persian, Chahâr unsurprisingly follows Meelodi’s third album – The Great Blue Wheel – which drew in musicians...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Identity

Nitin Sawhney

Sawhney’s back catalogue is freighted with album titles such as Migration, ...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Nite Bjuti

Nite Bjuti

Brooklyn- based trio Val Jeanty, Candice Hoyes and Mimi Jones release a haunting tribute to sustained jazz improvisation across 11...

Reviewed in issue November/2023