Reviews

Soleil

AMAMI

AMAMI are a Geneva-based three-piece who strive to combine dancehall, Afro pop and no wave. Soleil boasts so much; there...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Headonix

KingL Man

If you knew and loved Fun-Da-Mental, the so-called ‘Asian Public Enemy’, the agit-popping global prog-punk collective that cut a swathe...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

La Grande Fête

Belcirque

From its opening, soothing ooooh-oooohs, the third album from Belcirque has a clean, elegant sound. That might be due to...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Trotula

Hartmann Ensemble

Hailing from Salerno, Italy, Hartmann Ensemble release a debut whose title is inspired by Trotula De Ruggiero, a celebrated woman...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

The Great Blue Wheel

Meelodi

Bergen-based but worldly in concept, Meelodi is the brain-child of Norwegian Ole Andre Farstad and Iranian Medi Farmani. On this,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Char Taal and a Raga Rainbow

Rakkatak

These days North India is far from the only place you can find examples of the Hindustani music associated with...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Music for Dancing

Elettro Mascarimiri

Since the 90s Apulian/Roma musician and producer Claudio ‘Cavallo’ Giagnotti has worked to innovate the hugely popular pizzica salentina, exploring...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Under the Lilac Sky

Arushi Jain

Arushi Jain is an Indian-born, classically-trained Hindustani singer. She is also a Brooklyn-based modular synthesizer enthusiast. Using these two powerful...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Your Mother Was a Peacock

Oxlip

Oxlip is Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jayne Trimble, originally from Northern Ireland, and her philosophy on Your Mother Was a...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Beyond Breath

Balladeste

The liner notes that come with the CD claim this is ‘Indo-Baroque meets alt-folk minimalism.’ The ‘Indo’ of this description...

Reviewed in issue October/2021