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Review of Millions of Us

Millions of Us

BCUC

Top of the World

On the Corner Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Ten tracks into Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness’ (BCUC) Millions of Us, there's a message from Jovi Nkosi to producer Sam...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: July/2023

Review of Macadam

Macadam

schroothoop

Sdban Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Belgian trio schroothoop make their own instruments, recycled from plastic, metal and wood. Their obsession is to construct shadow...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2023

Review of Morîk

Morîk

Danûk

Top of the World

Omni Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

This is a fascinating debut album from a group of exiled Middle Eastern musicians, mostly Kurdish, who are now based...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2023

Review of O Yinne!

O Yinne!

Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy

Philophon

Rating: ★★★★

Lively church music based on Ghanaian highlife traditions with a modern electric slant. Guitars, two keyboards and a horn section...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2023

Review of Archangel Hill

Archangel Hill

Shirley Collins

Domino Records

Rating: ★★★★

Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2023

Review of Feast of Wire

Feast of Wire

Calexico

City Slang

Rating: ★★★★

In the late 1990s the Americana duo of John Convertino and Joey Burns created a form of desert blues inspired...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023

Review of Scuru Cauru

Scuru Cauru

Crimi

Airfono

Rating: ★★★

Scuru Cauru, Crimi's second album, kicks off with the bubbling of a water pipe and a vague background ditty suggestive...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2023

Review of Gojo

Gojo

Fendika & K-Sanchis

121234.records

Rating: ★★★

For 14 years, the Fendika ensemble have represented the Addis Ababa azmaribet (traditional Ethiopian music-house) of the same name, serving...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2023

Review of Where Water Meets Water: Bird Songs & Lullabies

Where Water Meets Water: Bird Songs & Lullabies

Sainkho Namtchylak

Ponderosa Music and Art

Rating: ★★★

From Tuva via Moscow to Vienna, Sainkho here visits abandoned islands in the Venetian lagoon, improvising lyrical vocal lines, soft...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2023

Review of Madíbá

Madíbá

Blick Bassy

InFiné

Rating: ★★★

It was always going to be a tough ask to follow up on Blick Bassy's seminal 2019 album 1958 (A...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2023

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