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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

Review of Build Something Better

Build Something Better

Grace Petrie

RobotNeedsHome

Rating: ★★★★

Grace Petrie is a Leicester-born singer-songwriter and musical activist who sounds better, and angrier, with every new album. She started...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/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 Parenthesis, I

Parenthesis, I

Josienne Clarke

Corduroy Punk

Rating: ★★★★

Now with a number of bold solo albums under her belt and a successful record label, it’s hard to remember...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: July/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 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 Healing Voices

Healing Voices

ESINAM & Sibusile Xaba

W.E.R.F.

Rating: ★★★★

The soulfully-voiced Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Esinam Dogbatse, who performs under the name ESINAM, met the South African singer and guitarist Sibusile...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2025

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