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Review of 20 Sonneurs In C

20 Sonneurs In C

Erwan Keravec

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ is one of the early landmarks of American minimalism, composed in 1964 and first performed on...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2024

Review of Fado Camões

Fado Camões

LINA_

Top of the World

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★★★

The artist known as LINA_ is a fado singer with an exquisite voice and a love of experimentation. She won...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024

Review of Toc de Crida

Toc de Crida

Toc de Crida

Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Every musician that picks up on tradition sooner or later must decide whether they try to stay true to an...

Reviewed by Goncalo Frota in issue: April/2024

Review of Intizar

Intizar

Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio

Just Listen Records

Rating: ★★★★★

When I visited the national Fajr Music Festival in Tehran for the first time, I walked into a performance by...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2024

Review of Dream

Dream

Mitra Sumara

Persian Cardinal Recordings

Rating: ★★★

US-based bandleader of Mitra Sumara, Yvette Massoudi, covers 60s and 70s Iranian pop. Notably she pays tribute to the popular...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2024

Review of Just Leave It All Behind

Just Leave It All Behind

Mukdad Rothenberg Lankow

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★

Music doesn’t have to have words in order to say something. Just Leave It All Behind sees three instrumentalists coming...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024

Review of YIÊH

YIÊH

Pamela Badjogo

Raphia

Rating: ★★★★

Gabon-born singer Pamela Badjogo honed her chops as a backing vocalist for Grammy-winning powerhouse diva Angélique Kidjo, then went on...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2024

Review of Bomba Pop

Bomba Pop

Amsterdam Klezmer Band

Top of the World

Vetnasj Records

Rating: ★★★★

Amsterdam Klezmer Band are full of chutzpah — or, as the Dutch say, gotspe. Just two years shy of the...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2024

Review of Cara de Espelho

Cara de Espelho

Cara de Espelho

Locomotiva Azul

Rating: ★★★★

No one by now can be ignorant of the far-right rise all over the world. In Portugal, the alarm is...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024

Review of Precious Collection

Precious Collection

Fran & Flora

Hidden Notes

Rating: ★★★

The London-based klezmer duo of cellist Francesca Ter-Berg and violinist Flora Curzon return with the follow-up to their 2019 debut...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2024

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