Reviews
Do You Remember?
Hailing from Germany, this amorphous cross-cultural jazz collective have been making waves on the Berlin underground with their infectious grooves,...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
B O D I E S
Berlin-based Australian singer-songwriter Kat Frankie leads an eight-member all-female a cappella vocal ensemble on this, the group’s debut self-titled album....
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Nest
By combining instruments from his native country of Latvia, such as the kolke (a harp/zither relative of Lithuania’s kankle and...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Orchestrations
Buttery has pursued a more eclectic approach to incorporating global styles into his guitar playing than his fellow South African...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Lion Awakes
For 23 years, Nigerian singer Amayo was the frontman for the acclaimed Afrobeat collective Antibalas. Having left the band in...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Atlanti Kaw
Now based in Belgium, the Burkinabé guitarist Sina Kienou and European vocalist Soledad Kalza met at a festival in 2019...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Karma Sheen
60s rock meets Hindustani sounds and Sufi lyricism in this album of bright colours and youthful euphoria. Karma Sheen is...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Luminescent Creatures
Following the international success of her 2020 album Windswept Adan, Japanese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ichiko Aoba returns with a spiritual...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Racines
As the album’s French title would suggest, tenor saxophonist JB Moundele here explores the traditional West African ‘roots’ of jazz,...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Hymns of Bantu
Anything Abel Selaocoe touches is bound to be extraordinary. Having followed his career from its early days, it’s been a...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
