Reviews
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
Soul Tropical
The grandson of West Indians from Saint-Kitts and Martinique and now resident in Marseilles, Walters continues his exploration of Afro-Caribbean...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
The Confluence
The Nigerian-British keyboardist and bandleader Dele Sosimi is a London fixture, an Afrobeat ambassador with links to the great Fela...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Terri Kunda
Conceived during an international Zoom call, this collaboration between US-based pipa virtuoso Gao Hong and London-based kora master Kadialy Kouyate...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
