Reviews
La Pata Coja
The Bongo Hop are the brainchild of France-based Etienne Sevet, who could be considered part of the new tropical revivalists,...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Carmen 404
With this fourth album, the French-ish quartet Lolomis continue to provide high-grade, adventurous splicings of hard electronics and sylvan folk....
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Kananayé
Kanazoe, Clotilde Rullaud, Abdoulaye Traore, Boubacar Djiga & Achille Nacoulma
This album has its origins in a project commissioned for a 2019 festival in Burkina Faso in which French singer...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Gharbí
This album has a strongly conceptual quality to it. Belmonte imagines himself journeying between Andalucía and Arabia with the purpose...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Fermentation
Followers of northern English underground sounds may be interested to find another psychedelic offering featuring a shahi bajaa – an...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Mon Péi
After releasing their first physical album at the end of last year, the quintet from La Réunion have now gone...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Kan Ya Makan (Once Upon a Time)
Four years after an adventurous solo debut which took us on an exhilarating journey through the Arabic world, Franco-Algerian singer,...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Songs of the Roma
Simon Thacker & Justyna Jablonska
This exploration of the rich Gypsy heritage of Balkan music is the second album by Scottish guitarist Simon Thacker with...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Don’t Waste Your Ancestors’ Time
Guitarist and Lokkhi Terra member Phil Dawson has carved out a distinct career working with everyone from Mulatu Astatke to...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
