Reissues of Tinariwen’s Early Albums Recall the Saharan Group at Their Most Iconic
Unimpeachable in both technique and sincerity, Aman Iman and Imidiwan are potent assemblages of the qualities that make Tinariwen’s music evergreen.
Unimpeachable in both technique and sincerity, Aman Iman and Imidiwan are potent assemblages of the qualities that make Tinariwen’s music evergreen.
The best global music albums demonstrate how much art comes specifically from connections between people and the importance of the places they bring with them.
Previously released on cassette in Mali, Kel Tinariwen offers a very different sense of style than the rugged sounds for which Tinariwen are so well known.
Olli Hirvonen’s Kielo is potent, straddling the borders of ether and earth with commanding resolve: instrumental post-rock at its most gripping.
Medicine Singers is an utterly cutting-edge and contemporary treatment of traditions often relegated to the distant past but with powerful meaning today.
These sounds are some of Batida’s most dramatic to date as Neon Colonialismo is made for hot, dark nights of the best kind.
Kottarashky and the Rain Dogs dig deep into the possibilities of contemporary Balkan folk-pop assemblages on Doghouse. There’s much here that’s truly exquisite.
En Är För Mycket is even brighter and bolder than Dungen’s past works, transfiguring pastoral impressions into wild explorations of fuzzy, feedback-heavy brilliance.
Morfo is an amplification of everything making Charlotte Dos Santos an entrancing artist: gossamer voice, luscious atmosphere, and a pervasive sense of wonder.
Uruguayan rock cult masterwork Musicasión 4 ½ is the kind of record that deserves to be recognized as a jewel of classic rock.
On Sampa the Great’s As Above, So Below, she makes music with incredible clarity of purpose and affirms a sense of interconnected self and heritage.
Multiple musical histories come to bear on Avalanche Kaito, resulting in an Afrofuturist-tinged, cyberpunk-shaped fantasy well worth an immersive listen.