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Review of BLEU

BLEU

Ann O’aro

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★★

O’aro’s voice is breathtaking, heartbreaking. Gentle, but with great power behind it that occasionally erupts in a shocking flash… Her...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2024

Review of Vida

Vida

Ana Tijoux

Victoria Producciones

Rating: ★★★

Vida is Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade. That does not mean the Chilean rapper was hiding from the...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024

Review of A Tablanaut’s Journey

A Tablanaut’s Journey

Kuljit Bhamra

Keda Records

Rating: ★★★

Hear the tabla like you’ve never heard it before! This may seem a bold claim for an instrument central to...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: April/2024

Review of Rail Band

Rail Band

Rail Band

Mississippi Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Of all the dance bands to come out of West Africa in the first, fertile flush of post-colonialism in the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024

Review of Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982)

Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★

A simplified history of music during the period dubbed L’Authenticité in the Congo shows a period of heavily state-funded and...

Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: June/2024

Review of Les Secrets du Ciel

Les Secrets du Ciel

Yann Falquet

Yann Falquet

Rating: ★★★★

Yann Falquet is best-known as the singer and guitarist who co-founded the award-winning Québécois folk trio Genticorum, celebrated for their...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024

Review of Migrant Voices

Migrant Voices

Itamar Erez & Hamin Honari

Itamar Erez

Rating: ★★★

Migrant Voices is a collaboration between two immigrants to Canada who discovered each other through the global music scene in...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2024

Review of Circus of Desire

Circus of Desire

Olivia Chaney

Kartel Music Group

Rating: ★★★★

It’s been five years since Olivia Chaney’s last solo album, Shelter, which came between the stellar set of traditional balladry...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2024

Review of Flamenco Mediterráneo

Flamenco Mediterráneo

Carlos Coronado

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Carlos Coronado likes to establish a musical connection with landscape. Having been born in the Baix Empordà region of Catalonia,...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2024

Review of Hajda!

Hajda!

Hajda Banda

Top of the World

Karrot Kommando

Rating: ★★★★

This is the debut of a new band focussing on the traditional music of Polesia, a region of eastern Poland,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2024

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