Reviews
Al-hambra
Ahmed Mukhtar & Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde
Baghdad-born Ahmed Mukhtar studied oud and Western percussion in London. On this album, inspired by a visit to Granada’s Alhambra...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
Inspirar
Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras | Danças Ocultas
‘Inspirar’ means ‘to inspire’ in Portuguese – no surprise there, right? And the word takes the same double meaning as...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025
Meydan
Meral Polat is a Dutch singer of Turkish-Kurdish descent, devoted to exploring the space left by 70s Anatolian psychedelia and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2025
Babo Moreno
Son of renowned Brazilian percussionist Bosco de Oliveira, Fabio de Oliveira, aka Babo Moreno, grew up in London, making his...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: October/2025
Salta!
Salta!, the debut LP from Brussels-based trio Peixe e Limão, can hardly be said to start as it means to...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: October/2025
Horses
Country, and especially 70s country, is at the core of Tobacco City’s sound. The band, fronted by Lexi Goddard and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2025
Angel
Cerys Hafana found a ballad from the Welsh National Library’s database about a man sent into a 350-year sleep by...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: October/2025
Song of the Birds
Avi Avital is the Israeli virtuoso of the mandolin who’s been taking this super versatile instrument into concert halls around...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2025
Music For a Revolution Vol 1: Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label (1967–1973)
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
With Music For a Revolution Vol 1, record label Radio Martiko is giving listeners an extraordinary window into a particular...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: September/2025
