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Review of Breathe Out

Breathe Out

Luna Silva & the Wonders

The House of Wonders

Rating: ★★★★

Having grown up at somewhat of a crossroads between Britain, France and Spain, Luna Silva, fortified by fellow musicians The...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2022

Review of Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87

Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87

VARIOUS ARTSTS

Discos Horoscopo/Rebel Up Records

Rating: ★★★

By the late 70s Peruvian cumbia had become synonymous with neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Lima populated by internal migrants...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: May/2022

Review of Nar

Nar

Christiane Karam Quintet

Christiane Karam

Rating: ★★★★

Singer Christiane Karam draws on both her Lebanese and Armenian heritage to deliver a richly textured and multilayered album that...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2022

Review of Alazhymny/My Alash

Alazhymny/My Alash

Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool

Pan Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This release is essential for fans of Tyvan throat singing. It features unique archive field recordings made in Tyva from...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2022

Review of The Age of Aquarius

The Age of Aquarius

Yīn Yīn | YĪN YĪN

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★

There have been a lot of releases in recent years by European acts incorporating Asian pop and even traditional instrumentation...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2022

Review of Day is Come

Day is Come

The Alt

Under the Arch Records

Rating: ★★★★

The self-titled first album by the trio of Nuala Kennedy (flute and whistle), John Doyle (guitar, bodhrán, keyboards), and Eamon...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2022

Review of Needle & Thread

Needle & Thread

Dom Prag

Dom Prag

Rating: ★★★

Dom Prag is a young singer and guitarist from Southampton who discovered the world of traditional folk song when he...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2022

Review of Little Hammam

Little Hammam

Temenik Electric

Nomad Café

Rating: ★★★★

When Songlines reviewed Ouesh Hada?, the 2013 debut album from Temenik Electric, we suggested it would be thrilling to hear...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022

Review of In My Own Time

In My Own Time

Karen Dalton

Light in the Attic

Rating: ★★★★★

Karen Dalton, who died in 1993 at age 55, was for a brief period in the 1960s the darling dark...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Review of The Long Count

The Long Count

Debit

Top of the World

Modern Love

Rating: ★★★★

On Animus, her 2018 debut album, Mexican-American producer-musician Delia Beatriz aka Debit explored metallic soundscapes, frantic club grooves, pulsing sequences...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022

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