Reviews
Air Senegal
The Israeli-born Aylon won a Best Artist nomination in the Songlines World Music Awards for his 2021 album Xalam. That...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
KÖD
Montreal-based Chadian producer, singer and guitarist Caleb Rimtobaye, aka Afrotronix, fuses ancestral African tradition with future-facing electronics. KÖD expands his...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Excavated Shellac: Voices
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
The globe is completely open for this deep excavation, the latest in Dust-to-Digital’s Jonathan Ward-assembled series. From Mongolia to Morocco,...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Spanish Dogs
It’s surprising that this brassy nine-piece outfit hails from Madrid, as from the opening ‘Batanga Caballero’ (underlined later by ‘Cocacho...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Haf
A third album in little more than a year from the Welsh samba ensemble is an impressive enough achievement, even...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Owelu Dreamhouse
Owelu Dreamhouse is a collaborative project masterminded by vocalist Nkechi Anele and multi-instrumentalist and arranger Nic Ryan-Glenie, both formerly of...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Los Costureros
From Devon comes an unlikely, charming and impressive Spanish-Brazilian fusion album. Los Costureros (Spanish for ‘the tailors’ – they feature...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Forgive Us For
After more than 50 years, Kronos Quartet are still presenting more thought-provoking music than any other string quartet in the...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
Open Guitar (Volume One)
The concept behind Australian guitarist D.C Cross’s latest album is intended as an antidote to the frenetic nature of modern...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
No Border
It seems that these days (to me, at least) you can hardly scroll for five minutes through TikTok or Facebook...
Reviewed in issue April/2026
