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Review of Madremonte

Madremonte

Jaguar

El Palmas Music

Rating: ★★★

Madremonte is the debut album from the Europe-based Colombian duo, Jaguar. The title of the album makes reference to an...

Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: December/2021

Review of 16 Rayos

16 Rayos

Orquesta Akokán

Daptone Records

Rating: ★★★

The word ‘mambo’ conjures up shimmying couples almost losing themselves to crazed percussion. But the dance craze was, in fact,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2021

Review of Kaftan d’Alma

Kaftan d’Alma

Maja Milinkovic

Croatia Records

Rating: ★★★

Maybe we can blame a common Mediterranean feeling working its way into a shared culture, but it is quite interesting...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2021

Review of Melodi

Melodi

Kit Sebastian

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★

Kit Sebastian is the London-based duo of Turkish vocalist Merve Erdem and Anglo-French multi-instrumentalist Kit Martin, but you’d be forgiven...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2021

Review of The Ballad of Dood & Juanita

The Ballad of Dood & Juanita

Sturgill Simpson

High Top Mountain Records

Rating: ★★★

Explaining The Ballad of Dood & Juanita to an interviewer, Sturgill Simpson offered, ‘I’ve only ever really been interested in...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2021

Review of The Road Never Travelled

The Road Never Travelled

Tzimmes

Big Tzimmes Productions

Rating: ★★★

Tzimmes translates in Yiddish a ‘big fuss.’ It’s also an Eastern European Jewish dish: a sweet, honeyed mix of root...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: December/2021

Review of Timber

Timber

Bryan Rahija

Top of the World

Ramseur Records

Rating: ★★★★

Add Bryan Rahija to the ranks of superb fingerstyle guitar pickers from the Piedmont region – Durham, North Carolina, to...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2021

Review of Night + Day

Night + Day

Opium Moon

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

With their debut album winning a Grammy for Best New Age Album back in 2019, the sophomore release from this...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2021

Review of Laroyê

Laroyê

Àbáse

Top of the World

Oshu Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This debut album by Hungarian producer and multi-instrumentalist Szabolcs Bognár (aka Àbáse) is exactly what its title means in the...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: December/2021

Review of Palenque Rockers Vol 1

Palenque Rockers Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Palenque Records

Rating: ★★★

Bogota’s Palenque Records was founded in 1996 by Lucas Silva of Faraon Bantu sound system, alias DJ Champeta-Man, to showcase...

Reviewed by David Katz in issue: December/2021

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