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Review of Czary i Czarty

Czary i Czarty

Wicher

Godz ov War Productions

Rating: ★★

With last issue’s Devil’s Fiddle album, the recent Daj Ognia disc with its dance-of-death track and this Wicher release, maybe...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

Review of River of Happy Souls

River of Happy Souls

Bapi Das Baul

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Bapi Das Baul is son of Purna Das Baul and grandson of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who became friendly with...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

Review of Char Taal and a Raga Rainbow

Char Taal and a Raga Rainbow

Rakkatak

Rakkatak

Rating: ★★

These days North India is far from the only place you can find examples of the Hindustani music associated with...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2021

Review of Wolo So

Wolo So

Balimaya Project

Top of the World

Jazz re:freshed

Rating: ★★★★★

Five years in the making, this debut album by the Balimaya Project (balimaya meaning ‘Essence of Kinship’ in the Maninka...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: October/2021

Review of Haar

Haar

HAV

Polpols Records

Rating: ★★★★

This second album from Scottish ambient folk trio HAV is as ethereal and elusive as the coastal environment it is...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2021

Review of Assolist

Assolist

Efruze

Doğan Music

Rating: ★★★

These sentimental tracks come from the golden, pre-Arabesk, age of Turkish gazinos, venues where mixed crowds would come, eat and...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: October/2021

Review of Cissoko Heritage

Cissoko Heritage

Maher Cissoko

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★

Born in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, Maher Cissoko’s claim to be the 73rd generation of a griot family...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021

Review of Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974

Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974

Manzanita y Su Conjunto

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★

Somewhere along the way cumbia has become the term used to describe Latin America’s golden age of tropical, danceable music,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021

Review of Ástor 2020, La Historia Continúa

Ástor 2020, La Historia Continúa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

EPSA Music

Rating: ★★★★★

This year marks 100 years since Astor Piazzolla’s birth in Mar del Plata, Argentina. This album is a timely homage...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021

Review of Borrowed Time

Borrowed Time

Joe Troop

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Appalachian banjo and fiddle player, bilingual singer-songwriter and activist à la Pete Seeger, Joe Troop calls this his ‘dream album.’...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021

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