Reviews
Wabi Sabi
Sometimes an album title immediately makes you want to return it, unheard. Such is the case with the nonsensically titled...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Nayda!
Nayda, or ‘waking up,’ was the word given to the alternative music scene 2000s in the wake of the Arab...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Istanbul
Given that Frankfurt DJ and producer Shantel had already gone to his ancestral home in the old borderlands of the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
No Summer
Welcome to the Radie Peat academy of drone singing, for the powerful example of Lankum and how they have turned...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Norcabo
From Cape Verde, Ary Morais presents Norcabo, a portrait of his present life in Norway, showcasing the sounds of his...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Cubangla
Acclaimed groovesters Lokkhi Terra continue their creative roll, returning to their Bangla-Afro-Latin jazz roots after a wildly successful collaboration with...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
The Reach
A debut album for the ages from Cardiff-based collective Afro Cluster, whose mission to ‘address the struggles facing individuals and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Keleketla!
Born out of an encounter between Ruth Daniel of the charity In Place of War and Johannesburg's Keleketla! Library in-house...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Walls Have Ears
Veteran collective Transglobal Underground have morphed and changed in the years since this writer followed their Pied Piperish lead from...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
