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Review of Suite Brasileira

Suite Brasileira

Paul Carey

Paul Carey

Rating: ★★★★

Australian-based guitarist and composer Paul Carey had one goal for his new album: to celebrate Brazilian guitar music. The vision...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2023

Review of Despite the Wind and Rain

Despite the Wind and Rain

Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones

Ròs Dearg Records

Rating: ★★★

Despite the Wind and Rain is the first album from the duo of Gaelic singer-pianist Rachel Walker and singer and...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: March/2023

Review of Barki

Barki

Maltash

Modular Mind

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Beirut, Lebanon and residing in Brussels, Maltash (Arabic for ‘Wicked’) is an experimental musician attempting to deconstruct industrial...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2023

Review of Fiddle Tunes

Fiddle Tunes

Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray

Top of the World

Fiddlehead Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This album's modest title reflects the pure reverence, unmitigated by contemporised showiness, with which these instrumentalists approach music from Ireland,...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2023

Review of Spell 31

Spell 31

Ibeyi

XL Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Spell 31 is the third full-length from the French-Cuban sister duo, Ibeyi, and it is perhaps their most daring record...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2023

Review of Almanac Behind

Almanac Behind

Daniel Bachman

Three Lobed Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Visionary guitarist Daniel Bachman is steeped in the tradition of American primitive fingerstyle masters such as John Fahey, Robbie Basho...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2023

Review of Everything Returns

Everything Returns

Black Ox Orkestar

Constellation

Rating: ★★★★

Black Ox Orkestar are primarily concerned with Jewish Eastern European music but also the wider Jewish experience, bringing aspects of...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2023

Review of Dialogues

Dialogues

Su-a Lee

Top of the World

Su-a-Lee

Rating: ★★★★★

South Korea-born cellist Su-a Lee celebrates her 30 years of musical experience with her beguiling and exquisite debut solo album...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2023

Review of A Time Between Birth and Chaos

A Time Between Birth and Chaos

Symo Reyn

Believe

Rating: ★★★

On stage, he sits with a qanun, the Middle Eastern zither, on his lap and a table crammed with electronic...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2023

Review of Horse Camp

Horse Camp

The Lowest Pair & Small Town Therapy

Delicata Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2020, while camping in the Pacific Northwest, Kendl Winter (vocals, banjo, guitar) and Palmer T Lee (vocals, banjo, guitar),...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2023

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