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Review of The Lost Tapes

The Lost Tapes

Owiny Sigoma Band

Top of the World

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

The Lost Tapes is the fourth album from the Owiny Sigoma Band and sadly it celebrates the end of the...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2022

Review of Chinook Waltz

Chinook Waltz

Over the Moon

Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★

When you click the ‘Music’ tab on Over the Moon’s website, the introductory note says, ‘With this album, we tried...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2022

Review of Our Island

Our Island

Small Island Big Song

Top of the World

Small Island Big Song

Rating: ★★★★

When the debut Small Island Big Song album was released in 2018, it was rightly hailed as a mini masterpiece....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2022

Review of Unite

Unite

Ogún Afrobeat

Ogún Afrobeat

Rating: ★★★★

Some folks follow in the footsteps of Fela, others follow Femi… This ten-piece Afrobeat band from Spain seem to opt...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2022

Review of Treacle & Bread

Treacle & Bread

Rod Stradling

Ghosts from the Basement

Rating: ★★★★

On the sleeve of this marvellous album there’s a picture of Rod Stradling playing his melodeon and beaming. He’s smiling...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2022

Review of Valge Valgus

Valge Valgus

Hartwin Dhoore Trio

Top of the World

Trad Records

Rating: ★★★★

Flanders-born accordionist Hartwin Dhoore has been intimately involved with some of the most innovative and entertaining traditional-inspired music to emerge...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2022

Review of Brave Land

Brave Land

Raine Hamilton

Raine Hamilton

Rating: ★★★

Winnipeg native Raine Hamilton’s third album is an enthusiastic fusion of chamber string music and fairly typical folk singer-songwriter structures....

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2022

Review of A la Manera Artesana

A la Manera Artesana

Vigüela

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Spanish folk has a quality perfect for our times: the ability to wail, complain and lament and, at the same...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2022

Review of Frank Y Sus Inquietos

Frank Y Sus Inquietos

Frank Y Sus Inquietos

El Palmas Music

Rating: ★★★★

In the clubs of Caracas in the late 1960s, salsa was going off. Or more specifically, a sound that mixed...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2022

Review of Zār Songs for the Spirits

Zār Songs for the Spirits

VARIOUS ARTISTS

JuJuSounds

Rating: ★★★★★

Zār is a rite that arrived in Egypt with migration – partly due to slavery – from sub-Saharan East Africa....

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2022

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