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Review of Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)

Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)

Maurice Louca

Top of the World

Sub Rosa/Northern Spy Records

Rating: ★★★★

Egyptian multi-instrumentalist Maurice Louca is known for navigating between electronic dance music, crossovers with Egypt’s contemporary maghraganat music, participating in...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: December/2021

Review of The Sound Braka

The Sound Braka

Stracho Temelkovski

MDC

Rating: ★★★★

Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Temelkovski, has recently brought out his first album, a captivating suite of soulful melodies, intoxicating rhythms and...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: December/2021

Review of Spiorachas: A High Place

Spiorachas: A High Place

Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach

Braw Sailin’ Records

Rating: ★★★★

With their fourth album, Scottish fiddle and piano partnership Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach confirm their ability to sing the...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2021

Review of Dreamless Days

Dreamless Days

The Meadows

Pokey Cupboard Records

Rating: ★★

The Meadows are a family band of four siblings: sisters Melody, Fantasia and Titania Meadows, and their brother, Harvey. Harvey...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2021

Review of Wary + Strange

Wary + Strange

Amythyst Kiah

Rounder

Rating: ★★★★

As part of Rhiannon Giddens’ 2019 project Our Native Daughters, the Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a Grammy nomination for...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021

Review of Kamana

Kamana

Carlos Casas

Discrepant

Rating: ★★

Now here's an odd one. Carlos Casas is a Spanish-born filmmaker and artist whose work encompasses film, sound and visual...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021

Review of Live in Paris

Live in Paris

The Master Musicians of Joujouka

Unlistenable Records

Rating: ★★★★

The collective of Sufi trance musicians led by Ahmed El Attar (one of two troupes spawning from the village of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Review of Remezcla/Pe

Remezcla/Pe

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Selvamonos

Rating: ★★★★★

Remezcla is ‘remix’ in Spanish; Pe is the URL country code of Peru. Each of the 15 songs on this...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021

Review of Kismet

Kismet

Kolektif Istanbul

Trikont

Rating: ★★★★

Since their debut as Kolektif Istanbul, Krivoto (which came out nearing the peak of the Balkan hype in 2008), the...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2021

Review of Stand Up Now: Songs from the Landworkers’ Alliance

Stand Up Now: Songs from the Landworkers’ Alliance

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Many a Thousand Records

Rating: ★★★★

The canon of British folk song is rich with stories and beautiful evocations of landscape, nature, country life and work....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2021

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