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Review of Danças de Porto de Mós

Danças de Porto de Mós

Aire

Sons Vadios

Rating: ★★★

Danças de Porto de Mós tells only half the story. The first album by Aire collects 16 new renditions of...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022

Review of Roraima

Roraima

Sigurd Hole

Elvesang

Rating: ★★★

Sigurd Hole’s previous album was a solo double bass exploration into the environment and atmospheres of his native Norway. Now...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2022

Review of Palabras Urgentes

Palabras Urgentes

Susana Baca

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

At 77 years old, Baca has never sounded better; her voice has lost none of its dynamism and the careful...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2021

Review of Esa Flor

Esa Flor

Adan Pedroso

Astar AARCDA005

Rating: ★★★★

A few years ago, Adan Pedroso and Asere, the group he founded, created the beautiful ‘Romántica’, a love song that...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2010

Review of Noongar Wonderland

Noongar Wonderland

Maatakitj (feat Paul Mac)

Maatakitj

Rating: ★★★★

Maatakitj (pronounced ‘mart-a-key-tch’ and translated as ‘long legs like a spear’) is the nickname of West Australian musician Clint Bracknell,...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022

Review of Shake the Chains

Shake the Chains

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Quercus Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Shake the Chains protest-song project (featured in #125) was conceived by English folk singer Greg Russell after his university...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2017

Review of El Valle de la Infancia

El Valle de la Infancia

Dino Saluzzi Group

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

A son, a brother and a nephew join Argentinian bandoneón (squeezebox) virtuoso Dino Saluzzi for this latest offering from the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Saturday Morning in Boston

Saturday Morning in Boston

Derek Gripper & Mike Block

New Cape Records

Rating: ★★★

The fluidity, sonic beauty and musical interplay exhibited on this record leaves little to suggest that this album was recorded...

Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: March/2021

Review of Black Atlantica Edits

Black Atlantica Edits

Daniel Haaksman

BBE Music

Rating: ★★★

Daniel Haaksman sees himself as somewhat of an auteur when it comes to music from across the globe. The Berlin-based...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2020

Review of Retribution

Retribution

Tanya Tagaq

Top of the World

Six Shooter Records

Rating: ★★★★

Tanya Tagaq's music somehow manages to feel completely out of this world, and at the same time deeply plugged into...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

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