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Review of Fiat Lux

Fiat Lux

Tarta Relena

La Castanya

Rating: ★★★

Tarta Relena – Barcelona-based singers Helena Ros and Marta Torrella – was born in 2016 out of a project to...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022

Review of El Mirador

El Mirador

Calexico

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

Since their first album 25 years ago, the duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino have carved out a niche...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022

Review of Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal

Veadta

Rating: ★★★★

With the cinematic sweep of an epic, and with the steady, enduring relentlessness of the rhythms of the natural world,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2022

Review of Incantations

Incantations

Mohammadali Najafpour

Kélk Artists

Rating: ★★★

In recent years, there has been an effort to broaden the expressional potentials of Iranian classical music. The genre has...

Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: May/2022

Review of Gin and Strathspey

Gin and Strathspey

LYRE LYRE

Top of the World

Lyre Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

A string band with a possibly unique instrumentation, LYRE LYRE is three of the most in-demand musicians currently operating in...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2022

Review of L’anniversaire

L’anniversaire

Daniel Colin

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

Fancy a Parisian afternoon, but can’t afford the trip? Never mind! Relax on your couch and close your eyes; Daniel...

Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: May/2022

Review of Crooked Tree

Crooked Tree

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle’s first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer. Recorded...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Review of Antiphony of the Trees

Antiphony of the Trees

Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends | Laura Cannell

Brawl Records

Rating: ★★★★

Antiphony of the Trees, the seventh record from Laura Cannell, saw a change of scenery for the composer and improvisor....

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2022

Review of Clichê

Clichê

Raf Vilar

Ajabu! Records

Rating: ★★★★

Back in 2011, this London-based Brazilian singer-songwriter brought out a first album with the somewhat misleading title, Studies in Bossa...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2022

Review of Breathe Out

Breathe Out

Luna Silva & the Wonders

The House of Wonders

Rating: ★★★★

Having grown up at somewhat of a crossroads between Britain, France and Spain, Luna Silva, fortified by fellow musicians The...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2022

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