Percussion
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Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers – Ayiti Kongo Dub #1
A visceral and hedonistic trance.
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GoGo Penguin – Between Two Waves Review
When a refreshed excitement to play again shines through the speakers.
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scntfc – Gibbon: Beyond the Trees Soundtrack Review
A wonderfully lush collection of tuned percussion rhythms to swing to.
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Ibeyi – Spell 31 Review
The Book of the Dead inspired French-Cuban album.
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Tommaso Moretti brings you xylophone jazz
An Italian in America with his drum kit.
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Introducing… San Ignacio
South America unites to tell the story of Argentine folk dance.
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Dijf Sander – LICHEN Review
A hidden collection of Javan inspired percussion performances.
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Charlotte Greve, Wood River and Cantus Domus – Sediments We Move Review
One of the most daring and expressive albums of 2021.
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Vibhaas – Master Healer Review
Exploring the rhythmic world of the tabla.
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Josh Green creates percussive light installations that feel like synesthesia
A percussive light installation creator.
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Cahill//Costello – Offworld Review
Post rock meets ambient from the next planet over.
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Bomba Estéreo – Deja Review
The best folktronica album you'll see in this year.
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Ongface – Faded and Jaded Review
The beat of the arcade.
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Throwing Snow – Dragons Review
Cosmic patterns and sound manipulation delights.
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Balkan Taksim – Disco Telegraf Review
The Balkan folk duo go clubbing.
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Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell – Burn Review
Igniting a flame of passion from the deepest of musical wells.
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Live Vault – Ibeyi
Rousing and uplifting Cuban fused rhythms.
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Seeming – The Birdwatchers Guide to Atrocity / Monster Review
The dance anthems to burn to
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Sandbox Percussion – And That One Too Review
Bells on High
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Treeboga – Circle of Unity Review
Tribal purges of emotion,
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Paleowolf – Primordial II Review
Music from the Earth's crust.
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Manu Delago – Circadian Live Review
The Little Drummer Boy's Ensemble
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Live Vault – Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers
The merging of cultures for an explosive ceremony
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Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia Review
Songs of uprising and standing proud
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Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers – Vodou Ale Review
Caribbean voodoo comes to the dancefloor
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Deya Dova – Birthplace of the Sun Review
Native African chants
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Sreym Hctim – Turn Tail Review
Japanese rituals must have dances
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Deya Dova – Koyangwuti Review
Deya Dova brings the desert song home
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Manu Delago – Nightliner (Delta Sleep Reworks) Review
Music to dream to
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Vanessa Forero – Fuego Review
A Tour-De-Force of alternative roots based music
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Paniyolo and Akio Watanabe – Passage of Sky Review
An unusual collaboration makes the most delicate of melodies
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Rajna Swaminathan – Of Agency and Abstraction Review
South Indian jazz mad experimental
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Christine Ott & Torsten Böttcher – Nanook of the North Review
The beautifully dangerous soundtrack of an Eskimo
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Portico Quartet – Memory Streams Review
An album you won't want to forget
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Manu Delago – Circadian Review
The rhythms of sleep in tuned percussion
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Treeboga – Gnawazonas Review
Hedonism. Forest edition.
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Introducing… Bombay Gasoline
The seduction of anger
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Conan Osiris – Musica, Normal Review
One of the best oddities of this years Eurovision was the utterly discordant misery pop of Conan Osiris. His song ‘Telemoveis’ for Portgual, which was…
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Clatter – Pull Back for Sound Review
Rocks best kept secret is about to be unleashed
