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Review of 20 Printemps

20 Printemps

Le Vent du Nord | Le Vent Du Nord

La Compagnie Du Nord

Rating: ★★★★

Le Vent Du Nord have been together for 20 years, and this, their 11th album, marks that anniversary. Calling it...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: April/2022

Review of Welcome to New Hoyle

Welcome to New Hoyle

Brad Fielder

Brad Fielder

Rating: ★★★

New Hoyle is a figment of Brad Fielder’s musical imagination. Inspired by a tiny, no-longer-extant town in north-west Oklahoma where...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2022

Review of PAN Project

PAN Project

PAN Project

Neuma Records

Rating: ★★★★

Taking their name from the Korean music-storytelling tradition pansori – meaning ‘to gather’ or ‘come together’ – PAN Project is a...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2022

Review of IRE

IRE

Combo Chimbita

Top of the World

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

These four Colombians who met, and started making music together, in New York, have crafted their own slightly-rock, slightly-psych and...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2022

Review of Sita

Sita

Alessia Tondo

Ipe Ipe Music

Rating: ★★★★

A formidable talent, an enfant prodige of the Salento music scene, Alessia Tondo, the female voice of the marvellous Canzoniere...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2022

Review of Golden Shore

Golden Shore

The Daughters

The Daughters

Rating: ★★★

Scottish duo The Daughters found the lockdown gave them the time to write, and an opportunity to take stock of...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2022

Review of Wutiko

Wutiko

Élage Diouf

InTempo Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Heard on our recent Global Sounds From Québec CD (November 2021, #172), this is Élage’s third album since he moved...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2022

Review of Doroja

Doroja

Santiago Córdoba & The Bauls of Bengal

Earthly Measures

Rating: ★★★

One of the most striking things about Baul music – a form of folk music from Bengal, South Asia – is its...

Reviewed by Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri in issue: March/2022

Review of Tango Macondo

Tango Macondo

Paolo Fresu

Tuk Music

Rating: ★★★★

Despite its name, Tango Macondo is not a tango record. It’s a soundscape of real and imaginary lands, born out...

Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: March/2022

Review of Meridies

Meridies

Go Dugong

Top of the World

Hyperjazz Records/La Tempesta Dischi

Rating: ★★★★

Go Dugong, aka Milan-based Giulio Fonseca, is an Italian producer, DJ, sonic traveller soul and unrestrained mind, a notable personality...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2022

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