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Review of East Pakistan Sky

East Pakistan Sky

Ustad Saami

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Following releases on Glitterbeat Records in 2019 and 2020, here is another outstanding recording from the Pakistani master surti singer...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Ùrar

Ùrar

Mànran

Mànran Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hard to believe the band that is the mighty Mànran is 11 years old, and with Ùrar, their fourth studio...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Voltaje Raizal

Voltaje Raizal

Rizomagic

Top of the World

Disasters By Choice

Rating: ★★★★

A rhizome is an underground plant stem; recent scientific investigation has shown it to be a secret communications pathway for...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022

Review of The Wait

The Wait

Vika & Linda

Bloodlines Music

Rating: ★★★★

Staples on the Australian music scene since the 1980s, when they were prominently featured in The Black Sorrows band, Aussie-Tongan...

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

Review of Kutumba

Kutumba

AO Music

Abbeywood Records

Rating: ★★★★

One wonders if in recent times there has been such a truly global release as Kutumba  – meaning ‘family’ in...

Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Longyin: The Dragon Chants

Longyin: The Dragon Chants

Cheng Yu with Dennis Kwong Thye Lee

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

In classical music, the recreation of earlier musical styles has become a genre in itself with what’s now called HIP...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Dionysus vs Tamada

Dionysus vs Tamada

Tamada

Souq

Rating: ★★★

Georgian artist Lasha Chapel has already enjoyed some underground success performing smoky, Anglophone ballads backed by minimal electronic beats. After...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Chants

Chants

Al-jiçç

Al-jiçç

Rating: ★★★★

A Portuguese band playing Middle Eastern music while paying homage to American jazz: with a premise like this, it’s either...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Day by Day

Day by Day

Norman Blake

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★

At 83 years old, Blake is poised to take his place in the Americana pantheon. In the 1960s he made...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Las Fuerzas Almadas

Las Fuerzas Almadas

Dat Garcia

ZZK Records

Rating: ★★★

Dat Garcia is the first solo female artist on Buenos Aires’ ZZK Records, which has spearheaded a neo-electro-folk scene in...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022

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