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Review of Guaracheros

Guaracheros

Sonora Ferreyra

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

This 1961 work was originally released on Peru's MAG label. Nelson Ferreyra's outfit gives Cuban guaracha, once particularly popular in...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2024

Review of Spirits of Mauronoros

Spirits of Mauronoros

Kolida Babo

Veego Records

Rating: ★★★★

The ancient world and the turbulent present collide to great effect on this, the second LP from the Greek woodwind...

Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: November/2024

Review of A Thousand Pokes

A Thousand Pokes

Stick in the Wheel

Top of the World

From Here Records

Rating: ★★★★

‘Pokes’ were typos to 14th-century scribes, and it's the rough music of a mistaken world, poked through with holes, that's...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2024

Review of mute

mute

El Khat

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

Eyal el Wahab, the leader of El Khat sees their third album as ‘a story of endings and new beginnings.’...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: November/2024

Review of Willie Watson

Willie Watson

Willie Watson

Little Operation Records and More

Rating: ★★★

Since co-founding the much-acclaimed Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson has spent around a quarter of a century as an...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024

Review of Any Anxious Colour

Any Anxious Colour

Mark Cherrie Quartet

Windmill Jazz

Rating: ★★★

Any Anxious Colour is the second album by steelpan player Mark Cherrie. Having released his debut, Joining the Dots, back...

Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: November/2024

Review of Caçada Noturna

Caçada Noturna

Tiganá Santana

Ajabu! Records

Rating: ★★★★

With his fourth solo album for the Swedish label, the Afro-Brazilian minstrel from Salvador reinforces a decade-long recording relationship and...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2024

Review of Suron Ki Sayen

Suron Ki Sayen

Avra Banerjee

Avra Banerjee

Rating: ★★

Avra Banerjee is an Indian composer and sarod player based in Australia and he’s got some impressive instrumentalist and vocalist...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024

Review of Collab

Collab

Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Sony Music Brazil

Rating: ★★★★

Afro-Cuban pianist Rubalcaba and Brazilian mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda combine to play this impeccable hour of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz,...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: November/2024

Review of Synthesizing the Silk Roads

Synthesizing the Silk Roads

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ostinato Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The title and subheading (Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock and Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia) say...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: November/2024

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