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Review of If Only I Could Hibernate

If Only I Could Hibernate

Johanni Curtet

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

This release is the soundtrack to the film If Only I Could Hibernate by Mongolian director Zoljargal Purevdash. It had...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: April/2024

Review of Bin Dilde

Bin Dilde

Çiçek Taksi

CCK

Rating: ★★★★

‘Flower Taxi’ in English, present their second album, which means ‘in a thousand languages.’ Singer Selin Dettwiler, of Turkish-Kurdish background...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2024

Review of 20 Sonneurs In C

20 Sonneurs In C

Erwan Keravec

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ is one of the early landmarks of American minimalism, composed in 1964 and first performed on...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2024

Review of Onaida

Onaida

Natascha Rogers

Top of the World

Nø Førmat!

Rating: ★★★★★

Dutch-born singer and percussionist Natascha Rogers released ‘O Baba’ as the first single from this album, With its strong Yoruba...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2024

Review of A Tablanaut’s Journey

A Tablanaut’s Journey

Kuljit Bhamra

Keda Records

Rating: ★★★

Hear the tabla like you’ve never heard it before! This may seem a bold claim for an instrument central to...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: April/2024

Review of Hysterrae

Hysterrae

Hysterrae

Linfa

Rating: ★★★★★

This album brings together four musicians, all women, from three different traditions who draw on music from Afghanistan to southern...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: April/2024

Review of Vision of Three

Vision of Three

Northern Resonance

Trad Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 2017 Swedish viola d’amore player Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers started to realise her dream of establishing a string trio grounded...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2024

Review of Losean

Losean

JO BISSA x KAN

Babani Records

Rating: ★★★

This is a curious, patchily atmospheric album created by two artists who have never met. JO BISSA is a Dutch...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024

Review of Delight

Delight

Arushi Jain

Top of the World

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★★★★

With 2021’s Under the Lilac Sky, Arushi Jain announced herself as a gifted alchemist of electronica and Hindustani music through...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024

Review of Toc de Crida

Toc de Crida

Toc de Crida

Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Every musician that picks up on tradition sooner or later must decide whether they try to stay true to an...

Reviewed by Goncalo Frota in issue: April/2024

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