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Review of Ögbelerim – Music for My Ancestors

Ögbelerim – Music for My Ancestors

Batsükh Dorj

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Batsükh Dorj comes from a continuous but little known and recorded tradition of Tuvan music in the far north west...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2023

Review of Mango

Mango

Mo’Horizons

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★

Helming Mo’ Horizons are two Hannoverian DJs and producers, Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark Wetzler, who have been plying their Euro-Brazilian...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2023

Review of Habana-Bahia

Habana-Bahia

Yilian Cañizares

Planeta Y

Rating: ★★★

The cities of Havana and Salvador are widely regarded as epicentres of Afro-Latin musical culture – at the head of...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2023

Review of Art Populaire

Art Populaire

Duo Boulerice-Demers

La Compagnie Du Nord

Rating: ★★★★

Two members of the prize-winning Québécois vocal group Le Vent du Nord — Nicolas Boulerice and Olivier Demers — are...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: November/2023

Review of Motewolonuwok

Motewolonuwok

Jeremy Dutcher

Secret City Records

Rating: ★★★★

When Jeremy Dutcher released his first opus, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, in 2018, very few people outside the classical world had heard...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: November/2023

Review of Sara Mama

Sara Mama

Humazapas

Top of the World

AYA Records

Rating: ★★★★

A project long in the making, Sara Mama, which translates as ‘mother corn,’ has its roots in the Kichwa communities...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Biama

Biama

Lebeha Drummers

Top of the World

Neuma Records

Rating: ★★★★

This Garifuna group is based at the Lebeha Drumming Center in Hopkins Village, Belize, which opened in 2003 with the...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Chapter I: Forever, For Now

Chapter I: Forever, For Now

Anoushka Shankar

LEITER

Rating: ★★★

Anoushka Shankar’s last significant release, Love Letters, released in 2020 on Mercury Classics, was a very personal collection of songs...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2023

Review of Tusona: Tracings in the Sand

Tusona: Tracings in the Sand

Mokoomba

Outhere Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Mokoomba are back at last, six years on from their last album Luyando and ten years after winning a Songlines...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2023

Review of Mutations

Mutations

Faizal Mostrixx

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Ever since 2017's Tribal Match found its way onto Kampala's dancefloors, Faizal Mostrixx has been a driving force on Uganda's...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2023

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