Reviews

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Baklava

‘I am Istanbul,’ says Elena Hristova, the lead singer of folk-fusion band Baklava. Though she spends much of her time...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

4

Leni Stern

The product of a decade of musical research and cross-continental collaboration, 4 is the fruit of Leni Stern's forays into...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Siphr

Naima Shalhoub

Siphr (Zero) is the first studio album by the Lebanese-American musician, artist and educator Naima Shalhoub. With playing and writing...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

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Populous

Populous is a producer and queer activist from Lecce, a reggae-and-dancehall-loving town on the heel of the boot of Italy,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Right of Passage

Touki

Franco-American guitar and banjo player Cory Seznec and Senegalese guitarist-turned-kora player Amadou Diagne first met while busking on the streets...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Liga Latina

Liga Latina

Liga Latina have been described as ‘a European supergroup.’ Well, they're a quintet of Scandinavian musicians steeped in Latin and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Grown

Waaju

Waaju are an innovative Afro-Latin quintet, led by drummer Ben Brown, who regularly performs with Newham's Alfa Mist. This project,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

The Gap

India Electric Co

It's been five long years since India Electric Co released their debut, The Girl I Left Behind Me. In that...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over and Through

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smart work from the good folk who run the Alan Lomax Archives – from a catalogue of sound recordings spanning...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Simurg

Compro Oro with Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel

Simurg is the third album from Belgian psychedelic collective Compro Oro. The album is a collaboration between the group and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020