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Review of Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Çatakoğlu

Ahenk Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

Sezen Aksu: an unconventional contemporary female public figure in Turkey, for half a century she commented with her songs on...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2024

Review of Extinct But Still Alive

Extinct But Still Alive

Mama Longhorn

Top of the World

Soit Se Silti

Rating: ★★★★★

This is Finnish music collective Mama Longhorn’s fourth album in a 13-year career which has seen them acclaimed as among...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: May/2024

Review of Mundo Solo

Mundo Solo

Fabiano Do Nascimento

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★

I have been an admirer of the prolific Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano Do Nascimento for several years. Based in...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2024

Review of Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends

Jim Kweskin

StorySound Records

Rating: ★★★

In 1960s America, you couldn’t enter a coffee house without running into a malcontent folk singer with a ratty guitar...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024

Review of Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Spinster Records

Rating: ★★

This is literally a cassette mixtape, limited to 300 copies, although also available digitally. The mechanics of cooking, the sociability...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2024

Review of Rural

Rural

Kaifo

Eck Echo

Rating: ★★★★★

Dressed in a beige 70s suit and dark, orange-tinted sunglasses, Kaifo (aka Carlos Asimbaya) stares out intensely from a background...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2023

Review of Microfolk 1-3

Microfolk 1-3

Chaz Knapp, Cy Werner & Chaz Prymek

Scissor Tail Editions

Rating: ★★★★★

The deeply impressionistic, pointillist improvisations spread across these three wonderful collaborative cassette releases are like subtle adornments to the natural...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: December/2023

Review of                   Ifetayo; Glory of Om; Anoda Sistem; ‘Oduduwa’ [single]

Ifetayo; Glory of Om; Anoda Sistem; ‘Oduduwa’ [single]

Oluko Imo / Black Truth Rhythm Band

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★★

With the blessing of his widow, Soundway Records have re-released three landmark albums and a single from the much underrated...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2024

Review of Rabe

Rabe

Aynur

Top of the World

Aynur / Dreyer Gaido

Rating: ★★★★

The title of this album, Rabe, means ‘stand-up’ or ‘rise-up’ in Kurdish and Aynur Doğan has been standing up for...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2024

Review of Bucolica

Bucolica

Hiram Salsano

Hiram Salsano

Rating: ★★★★

Hiram Salsano’s debut album firmly establishes her as a remarkable artist, wielding a commanding and expressive voice rooted in Campania’s...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: December/2023

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