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Album Review: Yussef Kamaal – Black Focus [Brownswood Recordings, 4th November 2016]

Black Focus is the culturally influenced debut album from junglist jazz duo Yussef Kamaal, on release with Brownswood Recordings. Delivered...
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·17/11/2016·1 min read

Album Review: Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us [City Slang/Anti- Records; January 2018]

Chicano / Mexican rock today is a long list of formidable bands which have produced memorable albums and songs. Calexico,...
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·14/02/2018·1 min read

Album Review: Orkesta Mendoza – Curandero [Glitterbeat Records; April 2020]

How best to shake off the dust from down Calexico way? Sergio Mendoza has the answer- give your listeners a...
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·24/07/2020·1 min read

Album Review: Renu – You Are Fearless (Tumi Obhoi / তুমি অভয়) [November 2021]

The music of percussionist, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist RENU (Renu Hossain) is a tour de force of experimentation from a...
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·29/11/2021·1 min read

Album Review: Duma – Duma [Nyege Nyege Tapes; August 2020]

When Venom’s legendary album Black Metal came out in 1982, ‘black’ meant two things: a vague reference to Old Nick himself...
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·18/09/2020·1 min read

Album Review: Bombino – Azel [Partisan Records, 1st April 2016]

Azel is the name of a small town on the outskirts of the city of Agadez, in Niger, where the...
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·10/12/2016·1 min read

Album Review: Soom T – The Arch [X-Ray Production; September 2020]

Sumati Bhardwa, better known as Soom T, is a Glasgow rapper/MC of Indian origin. Justice is important to her and...
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·15/09/2020·2 min read

Album Review: Khmer Rouge Survivors – They Will Kill You, If You Cry [Glitterbeat Records, 19th August 2016] 

Aside from Indonesia’s Gamelan ensembles, Southeast Asia rarely features on the global music scene. This is a shame, given the...
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·08/09/2016·2 min read

Album Review: Mateo Kingman – Astro [AYA Records; July 2019]

‘Negative capability’ was a concept English Romantic poet John Keats used to describe a writer’s capacity to abandon certainty and...
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·04/11/2019·1 min read

Album Review: Ammar 808 – Global Control / Invisible Invasion [Glitterbeat Records; September 2020]

Electronic music has always been a soft target for the purists. To use an ex-colleague (jazz guitarist, quelle surprise)’s metaphor,...
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·02/10/2020·1 min read

Album Review: Various Artists – La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 [Bongo Joe Records; March 2021]

Welcome to a visionary inner self odyssey, spanning the golden age of Spanish electronic music. La Ola Interior groups two...
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·11/04/2021·2 min read

Album Review: S H I R A N – S H I R A N [Batov Records; 2nd November 2018]

S H I R A N sings in the language of dreams of freedom. Sharing tales of her family and...
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·24/11/2018·1 min read
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