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Review of Project Locrea

Project Locrea

Project Locrea

Antidote Sounds

Rating: ★★

The American capital is a hub, where many great musicians from all corners of the world for years have put...

Reviewed by Torben Holleufer in issue: July/2022

Review of Amor (É Revolução)

Amor (É Revolução)

Maga Bo

Kaxambu Records

Rating: ★★★★

It’s been ten years since Maga Bo released Quilombo do Futuro, his last solo full-length, and the sound hasn’t changed...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2022

Review of This Too

This Too

Kinnaris Quintet

Kinnaris Quintet

Rating: ★★★

For the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Free One in 2017, this Glasgow-based instrumental ensemble of fiddlers Laura Wilkie,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2022

Review of Tichazomuona

Tichazomuona

Dumisani Maraire

Nyami Nyami Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a very welcome reissue in vinyl and digital download formats of a wonderful album of Zimbabwean mbira (thumb...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2022

Review of Exploring Gong Culture in Southeast Asia: Massif and Archipelago

Exploring Gong Culture in Southeast Asia: Massif and Archipelago

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sub Rosa

Rating: ★★★★

Sound artist and archivist Yasuhiro Morinaga records found sounds and music from around the globe. Recently, he turned his attention...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: July/2022

Review of Home

Home

Sushma Soma with Aditya Prakash

Sushma Soma

Rating: ★★★★

Forest fires create an ashen, black landscape in the Amazon. Over in India, an elephant stumbles across a pineapple, begins...

Reviewed by James Scott Roriston in issue: July/2022

Review of Tres Golpes

Tres Golpes

Perrate

Lovemonk

Rating: ★★★

Perrate is about as traditional a flamenco artist as you can imagine. From Utrera in Andalucía, the family dynasty includes...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2022

Review of Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian 80s Disco & Boogie Cassette Tracks

Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian 80s Disco & Boogie Cassette Tracks

VARIOUS ARTISTS

wewantsounds

Rating: ★★

Anyone who travelled in the Arabic world from the 1970s through to earlier this century will recall how cassettes were...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2022

Review of Eremìa

Eremìa

Ettore Castagna

Alfa Music

Rating: ★★★★

At the very tip of Italy, Calabria has been the gateway to Greek civilization, a heritage Ettore Castagna, founding member...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2022

Review of Rosewood

Rosewood

Ben Robertson

Ben Robertson

Rating: ★★★★

For lovers of the finger-picking guitar greats of the 1960s, Rosewood is a treat. Ben Robertson acknowledges their influence but...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2022

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