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Review of Desert Equations: Azax Attra

Desert Equations: Azax Attra

Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★★★

Back in 1986, Iranian singer Sussan Deyhim was in New York, working with electronics and sampling multi-instrumentalist Richard Horowitz. They...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2022

Review of The Capitol Session ’73

The Capitol Session ’73

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Tuff Gong

Rating: ★★★★

After being unceremoniously dumped from their opening slot on a Sly and the Family Stone tour, Bob Marley and the...

Reviewed by David Katz in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Slåttepiano II

Slåttepiano II

Ingfrid Breie Nyhus

LabLabel

Rating: ★★★★

Ingfrid Breie Nyhus grew up in a family where Norwegian folk music was all around. It may be in her...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Songs for Leena: Improvisations on the Hopi Long Flute

Songs for Leena: Improvisations on the Hopi Long Flute

Gary Stroutsos

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

The cloud of mystery around the Hopi long flute has been an inspiration for veteran flautist Gary Stroutsos for a...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Bird Like Men

Bird Like Men

Tararua

Top of the World

Oro Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The debut album from this new Aotearoa (New Zealand) quartet brings together four distinctive Kiwi artists: female Māori singer-musicians and...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Giant + Guitar

Giant + Guitar

Omar Khorshid

wewantsounds

Rating: ★★★★

Wewantsounds continues its remarkable work in excavating long deleted Arabic albums of the 1970s and reissuing them on LP (and...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Doran

Doran

Doran

Spinster

Rating: ★★★★

Freak-folk quartet Doran took a unique tack when writing their self-titled debut. In January 2019, in an attic in rural...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Evergreen

Evergreen

Auka

Auka

Rating: ★★★★

Sheffield three-piece Auka make an agreeable debut on disc with Evergreen, a self-penned collection of Celtic folk-influenced pieces for flute...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Assouf

Assouf

Toumastine

Toumastine

Rating: ★★★★

It has been two decades since desert blues music first stepped onto the international stage, and although the world still...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Essiebons Special 1973-1984: Ghana Music Power House

Essiebons Special 1973-1984: Ghana Music Power House

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★

The recently departed Ghanaian producer and label-owner Dick Essilfie-Bondzie was digitising his recording vaults right up until his death, discovering...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2022

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