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Review of Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston Part 2

Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston Part 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Cumbancha Records

Rating: ★★★

Five years after stars young and old assembled under the aegis of Australian dancehall producer Jake Dominic ‘Mista’ Savona for...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2022

Review of Gnawa Electric Laune II

Gnawa Electric Laune II

Rabii Harnoune & VB Kühl

Tru Thoughts Recordings

Rating: ★★★

As you might guess, this album is the sequel to the first collaboration between Moroccan Gnawa musician Harnoune and German...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022

Review of African Journey

African Journey

Glenn Keiles

Right Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Glenn Keiles is an established composer and producer who first opened a studio in Brixton, London in 1982, spending the...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: October/2022

Review of Ritual

Ritual

Ana Alcaide

Ana Alcaide

Rating: ★★

For her sixth album. Spanish performer, composer and music producer Ana Alcaide offers what she describes as a ‘hymn to...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2022

Review of Overheard

Overheard

Ruby Colley

Ruby Colley

Rating: ★★★★

Birdsong features on a range of recent folk-inflected albums – our avian friends are the exotic new back-ups (although solo...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022

Review of Shruti Dances

Shruti Dances

Sarathy Korwar & Auntie Flo

Make Music

Rating: ★★★★

A project three years in the making, Shruti Dances is the debut collaborative release from star Indian percussionist Sarathy Korwar...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: October/2022

Review of Throisma

Throisma

Antonis Antoniou

Top of the World

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second solo album from Monsieur Doumani’s Antonis Antoniou, and like the previous Kkismettin it’s a corker. It...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2022

Review of Couteau / Haute Forme

Couteau / Haute Forme

Super Parquet

Top of the World

Airfono Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Super Parquet command the confluence of Auvergnat folk, art and club music, creating their own unique sound flow. This follow-up...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022

Review of Ver Tente

Ver Tente

Maria Rita Stumpf

Top of the World

Antares SP

Rating: ★★★★★

The fourth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Maria Rita Stumpf, Ver Tente, brings together her four decades of musical output. After...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: October/2022

Review of Relentless

Relentless

Kyle Warren

Greentrax

Rating: ★★★

Kyle Warren spent a decade working on this set of new tunes. Ten years on from his debut, Wanted, the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022

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