Reviews
Tropikadelic
Ireke (meaning ‘Sugar Cane’ in Yoruba) are a French duo with musical bona fides and a range of friends to...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Bamako
Hailing from Budapest but now resident in Canada, Lukacs grew up with Hungarian Jewish folk music and trained on the...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Ghazals and Thumris: From the Musical Heart of Budapest
Pratibha Singh Baghel, Kavya Limaye, Deepak Pandit, The Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Ghazal and thumri are wonderful poetic sung genres from northern South Asia, emerging out of 19th-century courtesan and Muslim traditions...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Love in Exile
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
This extraordinary collaboration can broadly be described as Sufi electronica, but it transcends musical genres. Arooj Aftab is a grammy-award...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Yalla Miku
Bongo Joe is a Geneva-based record label, music shop, café-bar, mission statement and musical philosophy. The new project Yalla Miku...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Asro
Kala Jula and the Gangbé Brass Band have each had their own albums issued by Buda Musique, and now they’re...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Les Égarés
Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Émile Parisien, Vincent Peirani
One has come to expect excellence and refinement from Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal. The Malian-French duo explore a unique...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Demi-Écrémé
Jack-of-all-trades Wael Jegham, aka Ghoula, returns with an engrossing electronica exploration of North African fables, languages and musical traditions. In...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
IYA: Songs for the Mothers
For their fifth album, London's Afro-Cuban community choir build on their tradition of performing songs to the Orishas (Yoruba deities)...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
One Thought Away
If you’re not familiar with Gurtu's remarkable versatility as a tabla maestro and composer who has played with everyone from...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
