Reviews

Gnawa Electric Laune

Rabii Harnoune & VB Kühl

This is an album that has me very much in two minds. It's a fusion of Gnawa music from Morocco...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Connexion

Peppino D'Agostino

With his first solo album in six years, the US-based Italian guitarist and composer puts his warm, ear-enveloping signature tone...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Hypernova

Jiggy

This seven-piece collective are back with their much anticipated second album following the success of their debut, Translate, in 2017....

Reviewed in issue June/2020

My Enemy, My Love

Mentrix

Iranian-born singer Mentrix's debut combines rhythms of the daf (frame drum) with haunting Gothic melodies and engaging electronics. Opener ‘Nature’...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Refuge

Sultans of String

Through the medium of slick folk fusion, Refuge delivers a message of tolerance towards immigrants and refugees. The Canadian-based Sultans...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

While her husband Béla Fleck has been busily recording with African musicians, Abigail Washburn has forged a productive collaboration with...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

DOD

Agbeko

Mancunian Afrobeat: it's a long way from The Haçienda club, but why not indeed? This 11-piece outfit was named one...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

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HILA

HILA (Hay/High in Los Angeles) is the brainchild of Armenian cellist Artyom Manukyan and Armenian-American producer Dawatile. Their debut album...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

The Vienna Tapes

Dunkelbunt

In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Bonny Light Horseman

Bonny Light Horseman

Seven years ago, Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer released Child Ballads, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award the following...

Reviewed in issue May/2020