Reviews
A.O.E.I.U (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Florence Adooni is a singer born to the Frafra people of northeast Ghana. She grew up performing in church choirs...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025
Niebla
From Medellín to Montréal… Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Alexander Betancur moved from his native Colombia to Canada in 2005. Since then,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2025
Hinterland
Hinterland – a region beyond what is visible or known – comes with freights of psychological scree, and this striking...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2025
Faka Mulilo
As a boy in the late 90s growing up in the village of Kolomwe in Zambia, Waina Kolomwe was given...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
Loudon Live in London
An excellent overview of the six-decade-long career of one of America’s preeminent (and funniest) troubadours. Recorded during a three-night stand...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025
White
Torgeir Vassvik & Juhani Silvola
Many young bands today are grasping the traditions of the Sámi joik and taking it beyond the northern Sápmi landscapes,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2025
Viaje Sideral
A member of the UK/Colombian Mestizo project, El León Pardo plays the kuisi and other ancient Colombian flutes, as well...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2025
Baarakelaw
Samba Touré may have started out playing alongside his mentor, the legendary Ali Farka Touré, but has gone on to...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2025
Bálvvosbáiki
The Indigenous Sámi tradition of joik chanting thrives in many styles across the Sápmi region of northern Norway, Sweden and...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: April/2025
L’Âge d’Or
One of the key Western artistic concerns of the 19th century was the positioning of poets as spiritual leaders, equal...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: April/2025
