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Review of The St Buryan Sessions

The St Buryan Sessions

Sarah McQuaid

Shovel and a Spade Records

Rating: ★★★

Throughout 2021, Sarah McQuaid has been releasing songs and videos as The St Buryan Sessions, her live lockdown recordings made...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: December/2021

Review of The Paths of Pain: The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68

The Paths of Pain: The CAIFE Label, Quito, 1960-68

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Honest Jon’s Records

Rating: ★★★★★

London record shop/label Honest Jon’s is never short of rare musical treasure and what a treat they have served up...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2021

Review of El Alimento

El Alimento

Cimafunk

Terapia Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Medical student turned padrino del funk, Cimafunk has been one of the hottest names in Cuban music since releasing his...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021

Review of Sa

Sa

Parvyn

HopeStreet Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Australian Punjabi singer Parvyn grew up among Sikh devotional music and trained in Hindustani classical music and dance. She began...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2021

Review of Piobaireachd/Pipe Music

Piobaireachd/Pipe Music

Fraser Fifield

Tanar Records

Rating: ★★★★

Deeply rooted in the classical sound of the Great Highland bagpipe, the piper and multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield’s latest release is...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2021

Review of The Impossible Wild

The Impossible Wild

The Last Inklings

The Last Inklings

Rating: ★★★

The Last Inklings are Leonardo MacKenzie and David Hoyland – MacKenzie is a classically trained cellist with 15 years of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021

Review of Late Night Tales Presents Version Excursion Selected by Don Letts

Late Night Tales Presents Version Excursion Selected by Don Letts

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Late Night Tales

Rating: ★★★★

The filmmaker and broadcaster Don Letts first found fame as the ‘Rebel Dread’ DJ who introduced punks to reggae at...

Reviewed by David Katz in issue: December/2021

Review of It Wasn’t Hard to Love You

It Wasn’t Hard to Love You

Fanfare Ciocarlia

Top of the World

Asphalt Tango

Rating: ★★★★

Is this the last album we will hear from Fanfare Ciocarlia? The world’s foremost Balkan brass band are not retiring...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2021

Review of Natura Sonora

Natura Sonora

El Búho

Top of the World

Shika Shika

Rating: ★★★★

Though British, Robin Perkins emerged out of the Latin American downtempo scene of the early 2010s under the alias of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021

Review of Máscaras

Máscaras

Mas Aya

Telephone Explosion

Rating: ★★

Mas Aya, aka Brandon Valdivia, is a Toronto-based Canadian-Nicaraguan producer and multi-instrumentalist known in that city for his work with...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2021

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